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

[Tim Frost]

On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 16:30 -0500, 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????
> 
> Can someone suggest a more accurate apt-get command line? to do this?

To install kde, you need the kubuntu-desktop package: 
   Description: Kubuntu desktop system
   This package depends on all of the packages in the Kubuntu
    desktop system

That package will pull in all the KDE packages, and other support
packages (the "depends" entry is about 240 packages).  

Once KDE is installed, you will need to update the alternatives for
various services, to select the KDE version as appropriate.  That *may*
happen as part of the installation process.

Removing gnome will be harder, because you have to remove the packages
individually.  For that step, I suggest that you use the KDE graphical
interface to the APT tools.  Its search feature should allow you to
locate all "gnome" packages, them mark them all for removal.  A key
package is the package ubuntu-desktop, which is the gnome equivalent of
kubuntu-desktop.   Once you remove it, you can remove all the packages
that it depended on, unless those packages are also required for KDE.

> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 	Joe


Tim