KCalc wants 100 megs of space!

[Virchanza]

Take a look at this:

root@bt:~# apt-get install kcalc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-x gvfs
  gvfs-backends kde-icons-oxygen kdebase-runtime kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4
  kdebase-runtime-data kdebase-runtime-data-common kdelibs-bin kdelibs5
  kdelibs5-data libarchive1 libcdio-cdda0 libcdio-paranoia0 libclucene0ldbl
  libgvfscommon0 libphonon4 libqt4-opengl libqt4-svg libraptor1 librasqal0
  librdf0 libsoprano4 libsoup2.4-1 libstreamanalyzer0 libstreams0
  libstrigiqtdbusclient0 libv4l-0 libvisual-0.4-0 libvisual-0.4-plugins
  obex-data-server phonon phonon-backend-gstreamer raptor-utils redland-utils
  soprano-daemon
Suggested packages:
  kdebase phonon-backend-xine phonon-backend-vlc phonon-backend-mplayer
Recommended packages:
  khelpcenter4
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-x gvfs
  gvfs-backends kcalc kde-icons-oxygen kdebase-runtime
  kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4 kdelibs-bin kdelibs5 kdelibs5-data libarchive1
  libcdio-cdda0 libcdio-paranoia0 libclucene0ldbl libgvfscommon0 libphonon4
  libqt4-opengl libqt4-svg libraptor1 librasqal0 librdf0 libsoprano4
  libsoup2.4-1 libstreamanalyzer0 libstreams0 libstrigiqtdbusclient0 libv4l-0
  libvisual-0.4-0 libvisual-0.4-plugins obex-data-server phonon
  phonon-backend-gstreamer raptor-utils redland-utils soprano-daemon
The following packages will be upgraded:
  kdebase-runtime-data kdebase-runtime-data-common
2 upgraded, 37 newly installed, 0 to remove and 137 not upgraded.
Need to get 37.9MB of archives.
After this operation, 101MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

I was expecting to download a megabyte tops.

What's up with it?!

[purehate]

I always said kde was like vista, a big bloated POS

[Virchanza]

Since Kate, KTip, KJobViewer, etc., are already installed and running fine, I would have thought that KCalc already had all the stuff it needed.

I wonder would it be a case of apt-get being incorrectly configured and not knowing exactly what's already installed on BT4? Possibly. . . ?

I'm gonna get a copy of the KCalc binary from somewhere and see if it runs on BT4 without installing 100 megs of crap. My guess is that it will work.

[muts]

apt-get install kcalc-kde3

[Virchanza]

Thanks for that.

...but something really funky's going on. Firstly I do the following:

root@bt:~# apt-get install kcalc-kde3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  kcalc-kde3
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 139 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/202kB of archives.
After this operation, 754kB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  kcalc-kde3
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Selecting previously deselected package kcalc-kde3.
(Reading database ... 130776 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kcalc-kde3 (from .../kcalc-kde3_4%3a3.5.10-0ubuntu1~intrepid4_i386.deb                                           ) ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up kcalc-kde3 (4:3.5.10-0ubuntu1~intrepid4) ...

Processing triggers for menu ...
root@bt:~#

OK so that appeared to work fine.

Next I do the following:

root@bt:~# kcalc &
[1] 6474
root@bt:~# The program 'kcalc' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
apt-get install kcalc
bash: kcalc: command not found

So of course, my next thought is to do:

kcalc-kde3 &

...at which point the terminal abruptly disappears without a trace. So I open a new terminal and type kcalc-kde3 again, but again the terminal disappears. I try it a third time and get this:

root@bt:~# kcalc-kde3 &
[1] 6504
root@bt:~# bash: kcalc-kde3: command not found

[1]+  Exit 127                kcalc-kde3
root@bt:~#

So then as a last resort I do the both of these and get no response:

root@bt:~# which kcalc
root@bt:~# which kcalc-kde3
root@bt:~#

As a last resort, I navigate to /usr/kde3/bin, but kcalc is nowhere to be found.

(I'm writing all this just to let you know there's a problem... if I really wanted kcalc so badly I'd just whip the exectuable file from somewhere)

[xorred]

did you check in the menu? tab completion? "whereis kcalc"?

[Titan8990]

To see what files came out of that package:

dpkg -L kcalc-kde3

[imported_aliosity]

Hope i'm not pointing out the obvious but BT4beta already has a calculator in the form of xcalc.
Is kcalc that much better?

Sorry if i've mis-understood.

[Titan8990]

Hope i'm not pointing out the obvious but BT4beta already has a calculator in the form of xcalc.
Is kcalc that much better?

Sorry if i've mis-understood.

Really, a python shell with the math lib imported is > all .