[Ubuntu Chicago] Tech support related question

[Max Luebbe]

Clarification question, not meant as a snide remark or an answer -

Why are you installing KDE to an Ubuntu Server install?
Why not just use KUbuntu?

If you're looking for a super lightweight desktop, try xfce or if you really
want performance and don't care about looks, try icewm

Back when I was a starving college student, (before I became a starving
adult open-source developer) I ran icewm on my p2-300 I had cobbled together
from trash parts. Ran super fast with my pathetic 128 ram, 4 gb harddrive
and 3dfx graphics.

Is your goal just to get some type of windowing system up for ease of
occasional maintainance or for regular use or for something entirely
different?

I can help better if I have a clearer picture of what you're trying to
accomplish.

-Max

On 1/11/07, Rev. Eric Roberts <woad at witchnet.org> wrote:
>
>  Well...since I am unable to start a new topic on the tech support forums
> (great way to make it look like we have a perfect product here BTW...no bugs
> reported...no issues...heheh), I am going to ask it  here...if I can.
>
> I have 6.10 server installed.  I had the KDE interface installed, but the
> kdelibs package and kdesvn package became broken.  I tried reinstalling the
> libs package to no avail, so I removed the kubuntu desktop and tried to
> reinstall it via apt-get.  Well I have been trying this for a few days
> (today is day number 3)  It looks like it s dl'g from the Argonne
> repository.  It keeps timing out on the gets for some of the packages,, so
> the entire installation procedure ends up failing.  I also tried getting it
> to get the kubuntu-desktop package from the disk and even after using
> apt-cdrom to get apt to recognize the cd...it says it can't find it.  The
> draw from Argonne is going very slow (about 1.5-4 kBps) and I am on 1.5/768
> DSL connection.  The current apt-get session was started around 2am this
> morning and it is still going (13.5 hours later).  Is there an easier way
> for me to restore the kubuntu desktop (or ubuntu for that matter...I have
> the same problems with hat as well...I tried that as well to see if gnome
> would be any quicker since it is lighter weight than KDE) without having to
> totally reinstall the OS?  HELP!
>
> I am running this as a dev server on a Intel 2.2, 512MB ram, 40g/60g/300g
> drives
>
> Eric
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