Installing Applications from Kubutu & Xubuntu CDs in Ubuntu

[vinayasurya]

I got Ubuntu. Kubuntu & Ubuntu and installed Ubuntu. Is there any way to install KDE and other programs like kaffeine, k3b from the Kubutu CD also Xfcee environment and programs in Xubutu CD to my Ubuntu system.

[JGuru]

I have not tried it that way. But you can certainly install KDE from Ubuntu.
If you want some applications that are KDE applications , you can install them.
There is no need to install the whole KDE for them to work properly. I'm using
Ubuntu 5.10 , and I installed Kate, and Konsole, but I have not installed KDE!!
They work fine. If you have Net connection , then get the applications you need
from there & install it.

[rohandhruva]

Add the cd-rom as an 'apt' source using the command

sudo apt-cdrom add

And then just do

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop

Depending on what you want to install ..

[vinayasurya]

Can i install other apps like k3b, kate using the same method?

[mehulved]

Anything that is contained in a cd can be added in this method. The thing is that it's dependancies should be present.
If you do

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

You will have all the apps present in the Kubuntu installed in your system, including K3B.

[vinayasurya]

I tried but it just failed. I am using Ubuntu 6.06. Kubuntu and Xubuntu CDs I have are
6.06 versions.

[mehulved]

Can you please specify what you did and what errors you got? That will help us know what's going wrong and offer a solution.

[vinayasurya]

I inserted the Kubutu and xubutu 6.06 installation live CDs into CD drive and run apt-cdrom add to both of them. Then when i try to run
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
i get an error mentioning the pacakge is not available.
I tried for xubuntu also but failed to install any apps.

[mehulved]

OK
Try this
Put the cd in the drive

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

It might be that repository isn't updated.

[rohandhruva]

Note that for using CD's as a source to install packages, you need the alternate (k/x)ubuntu cd's, not the desktop cd !

[vinayasurya]

Installed kubuntu and xubuntu desktops after downloading alternated CDs. Thanks a lot.