gnome=YUCK, KDE is my friend...[ubuntu 5.10 installation issues]

[albi]

Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:

> gnome=YUCK, KDE is my friend...
>
> I noticed an awful lot of the packages that were briefly listed as
> being installed and or configured by the ubuntu 5.10 installer included
> "gnome" in the package name... I'm NOT an expert on dependencies, But as
> soon as I can I want to TOTALLY replace gnome with KDE and any gnome
> packages that do not provide required dependencies for non-gnome packages
> I want off my hard drive. But I don't want to break everything else...
> 
> Once I get apt configured, can I safely do something like:
> # apt-get install kde gnome-
> Which I adapted from an apt how-to which did NOT however say how to
> radically replace all of gnome with all of kde????

there's one easy solution, install kubuntu instead

http://www.kubuntu.org/