Kubuntu experience

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 22:48 +0930, Brian Astill wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:31, Peter Garrett wrote:
> > Brian, has it occurred to you, at all. that you seem to be the only
> > person who has these bizarre inconsistencies in your installation? I
> > ask, because it would seem at least possible (unlikely, no doubt),
> > that you have made a mistake, and that the distro is not actually at
> > fault on this particular matter.
> 
> It might, if I had been running the system for a little while and 
> actually changed something serious (probably using root access).  This 
> is a stock-standard installation which as you know needs just about 
> zero information or guidance from me.  The ONLY thing I have done is 
> set up a root password.  Until this afternoon I hadn't used Kubuntu for 
> any work whatsoever - just examined it.
> 
> It IS possible that the CD or the transfer of files from CD to HD has 
> caused some corruption.  I did check MD5SUM, but that _might_ have been 
> mis-read??
> 
> I downloaded hoary using kubuntu and lftp, then tried to burn from the 
> ISO using K3b, only to find that cdrdao was missing so k3b could not 
> run.  This is the first indication I have that just maybe the cd->hd 
> transfer has not been completely accurate.
> (As it happened I had a version of cdrdao on another partition.  Copying 
> this across let k3b run and the burn was successful according to MD5SUM 
> checking)
> 
> I will be setting up a new system shortly and will use hoary and  
> download kde to produce a system similar to the warty/kde system I 
> currently use.  My guess is that it will work just fine. 

I hope that will be the case :) If not, I'm sure bug reports will be
appreciated! Rather than installing "KDE", perhaps you might consider
the "kubuntu-desktop" package, which is a meta-package. Apt-get depends
kubuntu-desktop or apt-cache show kubuntu-desktop would probably be
informative before you decide

best of luck!
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Brian

Sincerely,
Peter
>