Help to get started

[Harry and Sandy]

Hello Nils,

I tried the command sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
and 0 packages were uploaded or installed. It was worth a try.

Thanks,

Harry
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nils Kassube" <kassube at gmx.net>
To: <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: Help to get started


> Harry and Sandy wrote:
>> Nils, I tried using the command line as you suggested, but with no
>> luck.
>>
>> So I have downloaded a new copy of the .iso using torrent and burned
>> that to a DVD with a 2X burn as Doug suggested. I have ended up with
>> the same result.
>
> OK, here's another one. Just yesterday I helped a friend to upgrade from
> 9.10 to 10.10 (via 10.04). After the upgrade was finished and the
> machine rebooted, the login page appeared but after login, there was no
> desktop. Instead the login page appeared again exactly like you
> described in your previous mail. Of course I don't know if your problem
> is related to that upgrade problem but after some searching I found out
> that the majority of the KDE packages were missing. After I installed
> the kubuntu-desktop package, the desktop was there. So you could go to
> the command line again from the login page with Ctrl-Alt-F2 and login.
> Then use the command
>
> sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
>
> and if it then downloads many extra packages you had probably the same
> problem that we had yesterday during the upgrade.
>
>> But there are a couple of things that may provide a clue to what is
>> happening. When I installed the first time as well as this time I
>> got a message during the instillation as follows:-
>>
>> UBI-Console-setup crashed
>> UBI-Console-setup failed with exit code 141.
>
> It seems you are not alone with this crash and it is an old bug which
> existed in 10.04 already:
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/539463>
> However I don't think it is related to your problem of the missing
> desktop.
>
>> The other thing is in the Disk Setup page during the installation
>> today showed:-
>>
>> Before
>> /dev/sdbi     /devsdb5
>> under the top bar
>>
>> After
>> Kubuntu
>> under the bottom bar
>>
>> This suggests to me that Kubuntu did not load during my attempts the
>> other day and after the installation today I went into the
>> installation process again after installing today and there is no
>> sign of Kubuntu in the top bar as though it has still not loaded.
>
> Yes, that really looks like at least something is missing which lets the
> installer see that there is a Kubuntu version installed already. And
> maybe that missing something is included in the kubuntu-desktop package.
>
>
> Nils
>
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