Your solution worked great Martin, thank you for your time. My only wish was that it was a smoother transition. First I un-commented all the repositories in /ect/apt/sources.list as you suggested, then I ran sudo apt-get update, then sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop. Everything went off without a hitch thus far. Once the process finished it was apparent that KDE broke more than half of my Gnome applications. I ran sudo apt-get update again but it timed out at 99% on the last update ("can't stat source" error message). I decided to try it in Synaptic and found the same problem. Out of frustration I tried the update in Adept and it was successful (I have no idea why though). Unfortunately it appears that apt-get, Synaptic and Adept are competing with one another at first. After the update completed I went back into Synaptic and uninstalled Adept. I used the "fix broken packages" option and found it fixed most of my problems. Now that I have manually uninstalled the packages I don't want and re-installed the ones I do, everything is hunky dory again in the land of the Penguin. I'm not sure if the problems I encountered were common or if they were unique to me but I thought I would document the process I went through (above) in hopes that it will help anyone else experiencing similar problems. <div>On 12/27/05, Martin J Hooper <<a href="mailto:martinjh@blueyonder.co.uk">martinjh@blueyonder.co.uk </a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Dave wrote: > I'll be the first to admit that I am a bit green when it comes to Linux > in general, but I'm learning. I have tried a handful of different > distros and several window managers including Gnome, KDE & Xfce. I > continue to come back to KDE though, as my preferred desktop but I have > fallen in love with some of the programs available in Gnome I frankly, > can't live without them. Sounds like you need to enable the multiverse and universe repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list When you have done that do the following to read the details of those repos.. sudo apt-get update Then Adept should see all the extra software. See this wikipage if you get stuck. <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AddingRepositoriesHowto?highlight=%28repo%29"> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AddingRepositoriesHowto?highlight=%28repo%29</a> -- kubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users"> http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Dave Sterken