Hi

Let me describe myself before I ask. I am a MS windows user that isn't even that good with Vista. I just found this O/S by accident and was able to shrink my hard drive and install Kubuntu 8.10. I don't know how to compile or use a terminal. well I can cut copy and paste in the terminal if I trust the source. I just set up the system and I have the basics working. It looks great. I am learning by just clicking on everything.

My question is. When I downloaded software from the repositories with add remove or adept package installer. I don't see where the new software is at. How do I find it?

Also I accidentally removed my network widget from the task bar and I can't find it in the add widget selection thing.

Sorry for the dumb question but I couldn't find anything related in this forum.

Thanks

You don't need to care about where the software is. When you use adept and klick on "install this package" it automatically gets installed. But that is more a question for a ubuntu forum, as this is not related directly to KDE.

For the networkmanager, i guess you mean the icon in the system tray. Try to use ALT+F2 and type knetworkmanager in there. It is no widget, it is a "real" application.

Oh, and can you please update the subject of your post? It is no problem that you are a newbie But it can better be found with a subject that reflects the content of your post.

The actual software binary (the Windows equivalent would be an .exe file) is mostly stored in /usr/local/bin/ - other related files go in other /usr/local directories. Any application residing there can be run from a terminal using just the name of the binary, so "myapp" "/usr/local/bin/myapp".

But most software installed from the repositories will have an entry in the system menu, in Kubuntu's case, Kickoff, accessible by clicking on the the white on blue K. Software management is mostly handled via a package manager, instead of deleting the files by hand.

KDE is the desktop environment of Kubuntu (GNOME is the default for the regular Ubuntu), so as neverendingo already stated installing software is more of a Ubuntu issue, as KDE is software running on (K)Ubuntu itself.

Wow wrong forum. Sorry

Very technical. Maybe this o/s isn't for regular people.

It is, for many regular users out there.

Let me rephrase how package managers in general work:

You have online repositories and fetch the list of possible software over internet. And in your package manager you see what is available.
So for you as regular user all you need to do is look for the software you need (like you would search for an .exe) and then simply choose to install it. The downloading and installation is done without your interaction.
That's all. And like on Windows, the installed applications automatically appear in your start menu.

Thats the problem I have though. I did install them and I can't find them. Like Kcreator software I installed from the adept package manager. I can't find it but I know it's installed.

I just added a different application launcher and it has a different menu system. I will try that. Thanks for your help though.[hr]
Well for some reason when I installed them earlier it didn't take. I just did it again and they are there now. Thanks for your help.

If this problem is solved, could you please add [SOLVED] to the beginning of the thread subject? Thanks in advance.

In future, if you are having problems with changes not taking in the menus, try running this command in a terminal, assuming you are running KDE 4. if you are not, remove the "4"

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kbuildsycoca4