Re: [Gramps-users] Kubuntu and other distros with GRAMPS

[Peter H. <gr...@he...>]

On Tue, 31 May 2011 06:25:09 Dianne Reuby wrote:
> I really don't like Unity very much, so I'm still running Ubuntu 10.10.
> The 11.04 LiveCD doesn't run on my genealogy machine anyway, although I
> had that problem with previous releases which run OK if installed. I've
> been looking at other options, and the only program I use that I don't
> want to change is GRAMPS.
> 
> I thought about Kubuntu, and have been trying the LiveCD - but what
> confuses me is I thought Kubuntu was Ubuntu with KDE instead of Gnome.
> The GRAMPS documentation talks about GRAMPS using GTK, which I though
> was part of Gnome - so how can it run on Kubuntu? (You don't need to try
> and explain that to me - I'm just demonstrating my level of
> incompetence!)
> 
> So I'd be grateful for any feedback from other users on their distros.
> I've been looking through the documentation, but a lot of the tech stuff
> is beyond my ability!

Gramps runs just fine on Kubuntu here.
Just install it from the package manager (KPackageKit) and it will install all 
the dependencies for you.

I have run Gramps on KDE for almost 10 years, and it runs fine.
Most distros will run GTK and QT applications on KDE or Gnome without any 
problems.  These just need to have certain libraries installed, and the 
package manager will automatically do this for you.

HTH


Peter