<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.5730.11" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=937312221-11012007>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.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=937312221-11012007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=937312221-11012007>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!</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=937312221-11012007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=937312221-11012007>I am running this as a dev server on a Intel 2.2, 512MB ram, 40g/60g/300g drives</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=937312221-11012007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=937312221-11012007>Eric</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <STYLE>  </STYLE> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=600 border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD> <TABLE height=80 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=600 align=right border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD class=tiny> <TABLE style="BORDER-RIGHT: #666666 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #666666 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #666666 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #666666 1px solid" height="100%" cellSpacing=0 width=600> <TBODY> <TR bgColor=#ffffff> <TD class=tiny width="100%" height=1> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD class=logotext style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px"><IMG src="file:///D:/inetpub/threeravensconsulting_com/www/siteimages/threeravens.gif" border=0></TD> <TD class=noro style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 7pt" align=right><A class=psl href="http://www.threeravensconsulting.com/" target=_blank>Your ColdFusion development resource!</A></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD> <TD class=tiny></TD></TR> <TR> <TD colSpan=2> <TABLE height="100%" cellSpacing=2 width="100%" align=right border=0> <TBODY> <TR style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 4px" height=1> <TD class=noro style="PADDING-LEFT: 4px" vAlign=top><B>Eric Roberts</B><BR><I>Owner/Developer</I> </TD> <TD class=noro style="PADDING-RIGHT: 4px" vAlign=top align=right><B>Three Ravens Consulting</B><BR><A class=psl href="http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&addr=26+N.+Huffman&csz=Naperville%2C+IL+60540&country=us" target=_blank>26 N. 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