Issues installing KDE 4.4

[Mark Greenwood]

On Friday 12 Feb 2010 09:03:09 Bas Roufs wrote:
> Hello Henri and others!
> 
> 2010/2/12 Girard Henri <girardhenri at free.fr>:
> > Le jeudi 11 février 2010 à 22:44 +0100, Bas Roufs a écrit :
> >> SUGGESTIONS TO SAFELY COMPLETE THE UPGRADE TO KDE 4.4 @ KUBUNTU KARMIC
> 
> (....)
> > Very good I will try your suggestion !
> 
> 
> > My problem is I have no menu if I changed theme and no windows in same
> > case !
> 
> While dealing with the same problem, I found this workaround:
> Give the command ALT-F2
> A little interface pops up in which you can fill in the name of a
> package. In this case: "Konsole" - than click at the console icon and
> follow the instructions in my previous mail.
> After finishing the update session, restart the PC, give again the
> command ALT-F2 and simply fill in 'update'. Than you will see the KDE
> update manager.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Respectfully yours,
> 
> Bas.
> 
> 
When I tried my second machine, sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop did it for me. For some reason this wasn't installed and so certain packages weren't pulled in as part of the upgrade.

Mark