Re: Kubuntu on top of Ubuntu?
Clay Weber
clay at claydoh.com
Tue Oct 8 15:59:14 UTC 2013
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From: "O. Sinclair" <o.sinclair at gmail.com>
To: "Kubuntu user technical support" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Kubuntu on top of Ubuntu?
Date: Tue, Oct 8, 2013 11:42 AM
On 08/10/2013 17:01, Georgi Kourtev wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback. Over the weekend I'll try and will share the
> experience.
>
> Well, where I am -- in Bulgaria, quite a large number of PCs (DELL, HP,
> Acer,
> also others) are offered with pre-installed linux -- mostly Ubuntu and
> OpenSuse, saw few with Fedora. Normally they are much cheaper compared with
> Windows pre-installed, which is normal. For Ubuntu OEM installation is
> always
> LTS versions, which I understand why being myself currently on Kubuntu
> 12.04.2
> LTS...
> gk
>
>
> 2013/10/8 Bas Roufs <basroufs at gmail.com <mailto:basroufs at gmail.com>>
>
> Hello Georgi,
>
> if I were you, I would simply choose for a fresh install of the most
> recent stable version of Kubuntu - at present Kubuntu 13.04. On the
> other hand - if you need to get started quickly, you could for the
> time being choose to install some KDE components into your Ubuntu
> configuration along the lines of the instructions at this page:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingKDE
> However - as soon as you have a bit more time, do download a Kubuntu
> image DVD and install the whole system from scratch.
>
> By the way - you mention a new Dell? laptop with just Ubuntu
> preinstalled. How did you get it?!
> Respectfully yours,
>
> Bas.
>
>
> 2013/10/8 Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas at math.dartmouth.edu
> <mailto:sarunas at math.dartmouth.edu>>
>
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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)
>
You could also: look at the repositories list, note down any that are not ubuntu (in other words any Dell specific). Then make a clean sweep install of Kubuntu, add back the repository.
Dell USED to have a way of upgrading BIOS via linux on ubuntu, something you otherwise do not find. Sadly can not remember the details, this was 2 laptops earlier. But also check on ubuntuforums and there is a dell ubuntu mailing list:
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