[ubuntu-uk] IT Idiots cover introducing Linux.

[Caroline Ford]

Alan Pope wrote:
>>   
>>
>> Yes. I run GNOME here, see what happens when I try to install digikam (a
>> KDE app):-
>>
>> alan at wopr:~$ sudo apt-get install digikam
>> Password:
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree       
>> Reading state information... Done
>> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
>> required:
>>   bochsbios comerr-dev libqt4-qt3support libkrb5-dev libsqlite0-dev
>> libssl-dev
>>   vgabios libqt4-sql libpq-dev libkadm55
>> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
>> The following extra packages will be installed:
>>   kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2a libarts1c2a libavahi-qt3-1 libexiv2-0.12
>> libkipi0
>> Suggested packages:
>>   digikam-doc fam
>> Recommended packages:
>>   digikamimageplugins kipi-plugins kdeprint konqueror perl-suid
>> libarts1-akode
>>   exiv2
>> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>>   digikam kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2a libarts1c2a libavahi-qt3-1
>> libexiv2-0.12
>>   libkipi0
>> 0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
>> Need to get 23.3MB of archives.
>> After unpacking 77.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
>> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
>>
>> Note that digikam requires various extra kde packages "kdelibs-data",
>> "kdelibs4c2a" and so on. Of course if you did the same - installed
>> something like gnome-baker on KDE you'd see the same effect in reverse -
>> it would want the gnome libs.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Al.
>>     
Of course you only ever need to do this once. I run my desktop like this 
so I can run amarok, krita and digikam in a gnome environment. Why - 
because I prefer them to the gnome equivalents but still prefer the feel 
of gnome to the feel of kde. Thankfully with free software I have this 
choice and can make my set up as I like it :)

However I wouldn't dream of doing this on an old machine - but then I 
wouldn't run gnome either - I'd use Xubuntu as it's more lightweight. 
The machine I'm typing on now is so old (p166 laptop) I wouldn't really 
put anything other than fluxbox on it ;)

Caroline (secretlondon)