Ok, I decided this was more interesting than playing World of Warcraft tonight (sick, huh?).  So here is what I did:

- Downloaded the Kubuntu 9.04 32 bit .iso via a torrent & made a CD from it
- Installed XP Home on a test box
- Put the CD in the optical drive and selected to install within windows (wubi install)
- Shortly after booting into kubuntu I was notified 4 updates were available
- Verified that apt-get, etc and aptitude were both installed
- Looked through the KDE menus and found Applications/System/Software Management (which showed a description of "KpackageKit") which also showed the updates.  It also had Software Sources and add/remove functions.
- Clicked on the notification and after entering my password watched it do the updates.

In conclusion, perhaps the frustration was from someone expecting ubuntu components or perhaps the KDE 4+ folks just moved enough stuff he did not see what he was looking for.  The fact remains, it all seems to work properly.

Larry

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster@gmail.com> wrote:
Wubi is fantastic and works superbly in most systems and for most people.  Frankly, I've seen so many people happy with it in the last two ubuntu releases I have a hard time seeing where anyone would say it sucks.  We did two such installs Saturday at the installfest and both went without a hitch.

Where I suspect your failure is is the people who repackaged Kubuntu.  I will try to find time to verify this but the last few days have made my schedule quite difficult this week.

I freely admit that 3 releases ago it had trouble in a number of less common situations.


On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march@gmail.com> wrote:
Wubi sucks.  Jeez.  Installing a stable operating system from within
an UNstable one is insanity.  It's Ubuntu's worst idea.  Shuttleworth
will eventually figure it out, meanwhile do a real install - dual-boot
if you must.

Jim
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