Installing kubuntu

[Gavin McCullagh]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, David Caldwell wrote:

> I installed edubuntu without problem and can connect with a thin client
> with no problem (I had to add a hosts entry and alter dhcpd.conf, but not
> a lot else). 

Out of pure curiosity, what hosts entry was that?

> I then wanted to install the KDE desktop so I did the
> following:
> 
> "sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 apt-get install kubuntu-desktop"

Ah.  I don't think you wanted to do this.  The /opt/ltsp/i386 chroot is
where the thin client's filesystem lives.  However you don't want KDE to
run on the thin client -- you want it to run on the server but display on
the thin client.  So, you need to install it as normal on the server

  sudo aptitude install kubuntu-desktop

(I'd also suggest using aptitude rather than apt-get which is a little
smarter).

> and all seemed fine apart from some messages about not being able to find
> locale information during the setup of some KDE packages. I rebooted the
> server and then turned the client on and was greeted by the following
> errors just before the kubuntu logon box:

Sounds like kdm is now install on the chroot.  You can try and remove the
kubuntu system from the chroot but it would probably be easier just to
remove the chroot entirely and rebuild it:

	sudo ltsp-build-client

> Another thing I've noticed is that the new KDE session starts on terminal
> 9 and Gnome is still available and works fine on terminal 7.

I'd guess that's ldm on 7.

Gavin