replacing Ubuntu with Edubuntu

[R.M Deal]

Thanks for the advice, Jonathan,

>On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 22:02 +0200, R.M Deal wrote:
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>>Is there some reason the Edubuntu 6.06 install disk does not give an 
>>update option?
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>It might be because your Ubuntu version is the same version as the
>Edubuntu version? 
>
Or even a later version - quite possibly.

>Edubuntu is essentially the same as Ubuntu, it just
>has a different configuration and some additional packages (and some
>removed for disc space purposes). If you want edubuntu, you could add
>the Edubuntu CD in synaptic as another source, and install
>edubuntu-desktop edubuntu-artwork edubuntu-artwork-usplash and
>edubuntu-docs, then you will basically have an Edubuntu system
>installed.
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I did essentially that today on an Ubuntu computer at the school by installing edubuntu-desktop 
which brought in nearly everything else, perhaps not the artwork and the docs - 
I'll have to check.


One interesting problem which someone might be able to fix:
Several of the packages installed were for lilypond, a music scripting 
utility I've
used for some time.  I'm not sure why they were included since they take 
quite a
bit of space.   Anyway, during the installation, there was a problem 
with the
lilypond-data package.  Afterwards I asked to remove all the lilypond 
packages which
was done except for the lilypond-data package again.  I've tried several 
times to remove
that package several times since but the problem persists.  This is a 
15Meg file I'd really
like to clean out.

    Best, Ralph