Trying to add the KDE desktop

[Jose Medeiros]

Okay.. Thanks.. I'll try it. Why did my other distribution ( Non 64
bit ) work using  sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
then on my other installation? Also the online Kubunntu documentation
differs from the commands that you just asked me to try.

Thanks again for the help!

Jose

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On 1/16/06, Old Rocker <old.rocker at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> On Monday 16 Jan 2006 16:21, Jose Medeiros wrote:
>
> > Quick question for all you Linux and KDE Guru's. I installed Ubuntu
> > on my AMD 64 CPU using 5.10 and I am trying to add the KDE desktop
> > using the following commands, any ideas why it is not finding the
> > correct package?
>
> As others have said, you need to uncomment the universe repositories in
> your sources.list and then apt-get will find it.
>
> My advice is to be sure you've got aptitude and use that instead of
> apt-get, but that's only my preference (at one time Debian said that
> aptitude handled dependencies better than apt-get, but you can always
> use apt-get instead of aptitude in the following).
>
> This is what I'd do (in a terminal):
>
> sudo aptitude update
> sudo aptitude kdebase kde
> sudo aptitude kubuntu-desktop
>
> which should give you a full KDE system, but check through synaptic if
> there's anything you want that isn't installed (I find I have to
> manually install Koffice) and the British international language pack.
>
> Stay with it as its installed because you are generally asked to
> indicate which desktop manager you want.  By default, gdm is installed
> as its the Gnome desktop manager, but I find that kdm (the KDE desktop
> manager is better if your regular desktop is KDE.
>
> Don't forget to run Kappfinder afterwards, then do:
>
> sudo aptitude upgrade
>
> then
>
> sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
>
> neither of which should be necessary but they'll install any updated
> dependencies.
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