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The Ximian Red Carpet window has a shortcut bar along the left side with four items in it: Summary, News, Subscribed Channels and Unsubscribed Channels. Each channel represents a category of software or other data, such as channels Ximian GNOME for Ximian GNOME desktop software, and Ximian Preview, for previews of Ximian software. You'll also see third-party channels, where you can download software like the Sun StarOffice office suite, and the Opera web browser.
The menu bar for Ximian Red Carpet is quite simple. You should, however, be aware of the View->Refresh menu item. Refresh will reload all the Ximian Red Carpet data, in case it has changed. Use this if you have installed or removed software at the command line while running Ximian Red Carpet or if you think that new packages might have become available since you started the application.
To subscribe to a channel, do this:
Click on the Unsubscribed Channels button in the shortcut bar. This will show you the channels available to you.
Click on the channel that interests you.
Click the Subscribe button at the lower right, or select Subscriptions->Subscribe. When you have subscribed to a channel, information about it will appear in your Ximian Red Carpet summary.
To unsubscribe from a channel, do the reverse:
Click on the Subscribed Channels button in the shortcut bar. This will show you the channels to which you currently subscribe.
Click on the channel that you want to remove from your subscribed list.
Click the Unsubscribe button at the lower right, or select Subscriptions->Unsubscribe. When you have cancelled your subscription to a channel, information about it will no longer appear in your Ximian Red Carpet summary.
Now that you have set your subscriptions to your liking, you're ready to add, update, and remove software. This section will show you how.
Each subscribed channel has a series of buttons along the top right:
Update: shows updates which are available for the software you currently have installed.
Install lists all the software in the channel which you have not installed.
Remove shows you the software from the channel that you have installed and which you may remove.
About describes the channel itself.
You may choose any update from any channel to which you are subscribed. To do so, visit the individual channel, and select packages individually. Alternately, you may click Select All; click Select None to clear the form and start over. You can search for the package you want by entering a word or phrase into the Search and pressing Return. When you have selected which packages you would like to update, click Update Now.
If an update requires additional packages, Ximian Red Carpet will find out what they are and offer you the option of installing those as well. In the rare event that your selected software has unresolvable conflicts — if you're trying to install two programs which simply cannot exist in each other's presence — Ximian Red Carpet will let you know what the conflict was, and let you go back and try to resolve it.
If you like, you can remove software with Ximian Red Carpet. As with the Updates section, you can select one or more packages with the check-boxes next to each package name. You can also search for a specific package among your installed software in the same way you would in the Updates.
If you want to remove a package which is required by other software, Ximian Red Carpet will ask if you want to remove all the other packages which depend on it, or if you would prefer to cancel the operation. For example, if you were to remove gnome-libs from the Ximian GNOME channel, you would also have to remove most of GNOME, because almost everything depends on those core libraries.
If you've updated or removed software with Ximian Red Carpet, installing new software will look pretty familiar to you. When you click Install, you'll see a list of packages — in this case, software you have not installed but which is available to you. Search among the packages with the search box, selecting those you want, and then click Install Packages. As it does when removing and updating, Ximian Red Carpet will check to see if the software you're installing requires any other packages; if it does, it will let you know what they are, and give you the option to cancel or proceed.
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