Carrie Webb: A question here form Troy74, Troy says, “Hey guys, I love the show. I watch every week. I love the new recast. I can’t watch live because it works but this is awesome.”
Hey that’s great Troy that you get to use that. “I have a question about Ubuntu updates in general. I use Ubuntu Intrepid with the Gnome desktop. When I ran updates, I periodically get updates for the KDE desktop. Are these updates necessary? Should I just ignore these updates? Or do they provide some function for the Gnome environment as well?”
Robbie Ferguson: All right. Is that the end?
Carrie Webb: One more line, “This morning I have 90 megabytes of KDE updates pending and I’m not sure if I really need these or not. Thanks for clearing up my confusion.”
Robbie Ferguson: No problem.
Carrie Webb: “From Troy”
Robbie Ferguson: So we’re talking a little bit earlier Troy about the fact that Linux has dependencies and certain programs rely on other programs in order to be able to operate properly.
So, if you install an application that is built for KDE in Ubuntu which is based on Gnome or which uses Gnome, you’ll see that like I use. For example I use K3B quite a bit, so K3B is installed even on my demo system. When I installed K3B, it also installed a bunch of KDE components because K3B is a KDE application. So anytime you install a KDE application, it’s going to have to install dependencies, programs that are required in order to run those things on Ubuntu or on Gnome.
So in the case where you’re seeing those KDE updates in your Update Manager let them go through because all those are is updates to those applications that are required by your KDE applications even though you’re using Gnome.
So, definitely you want to go through with those and it goes right back to the first question about updates. It’s exactly the same sort of thing except those are things that are allowing you to use your KDE applications within Gnome.
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