on KDE

[R.L. Reingard]

hi friends of KDE

some days ago i did install KDE, at least i thought i did it. and of  
course i did some installation. what i installed through synaptic was  
'kdebase'. and it was running okay.
today i found a link, and see 3 other possible (and Kubuntu Installation  
CD would be a fourth??) ways of installing KDE.
wow, now i am puzzled !
can this be explained in a understandable way ?
thank you,
René

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http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/InstallingKDE

Under HoaryHedgehog

There are different packages to be installed to acquire Kubuntu from an  
Ubuntu installation depending on which packages you want. Below are the  
three possible choices, or "routes", to go down; the packages below are  
metapackages -- they depend upon other, "real", packages, and with their  
installation they pull them in. For any of the below packages, to install  
 from apt simply enter "sudo apt-get install <packagename>" in the command  
line, or you can use Synaptic to find and install the given package. The  
options are as follows:

(i) 'kubuntu-desktop' -- This is the recommended metapackage to install;  
the full Kubuntu installation, with all the Kubuntu recommended packages.  
This includes OpenOffice, Konversation, amaroK, K3B, and others.

(ii) 'kde' -- This will install the following KDE packages:  
kde-amusements, kdeaccessibility, kdeaddons, kdeadmin, kdeartwork,  
kdegraphics, kdemultimedia, kdenetwork, kdepim, kdesdk, kdeutils,  
kdewebdev, kdevelop3 and the kde-core metapackage (see details below).

(iii) 'kde-core' --- This will install the core -- the bare-minimum  
required-- of KDE. That is, kdebase, kdelibs, arts and fontconfig.

If you choose to not install kubuntu-desktop, then you can still get all  
the Kubuntu-specific tweaks by installing the 'kubuntu-default-settings'  
package.