Kubuntu on top of Ubuntu?

Sarunas Burdulis sarunas at math.dartmouth.edu
Tue Oct 8 12:48:57 UTC 2013


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On 10/08/2013 01:50 AM, Georgi Kourtev wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  Few days ago I got a new laptop with Ubuntu 12.04 pre-installed by the OEM 
> (DELL).  As I would like to keep on Kubuntu (which I use since 2008) what 
> would be the better way -- to install the KDE over the Ubuntu that is on the 
> laptop anyway, or to do a fresh Kubuntu 12.04 install?  Any advice or 
> experience is appreciated.

There were plenty of good suggestions already, but I might add that you
can also try booting from Kubuntu Live CD or USB drive and see if
everything works well. If so you can start with complete reinstall of
pure KDE, i.e. Kubuntu.

If you find that some functionality is missing (power
saving/suspend/brightness/wireless etc.), keeping Dell setup might be
easier. My preferred way would be to use Terminal and install:

sudo apt-get install kde-full

(kde-full - complete KDE Software Compilation for end users)

Sarunas Burdulis
http://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas
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