Best way to pull a "side-grade"?

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 6/2/06, Peter N. Spotts <pspotts at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Have I just coined a term? Anyway, after my on-line upgrade this
> morning from 5.10 to 6.06, (the smoothest upgrade I've ever
> experienced! -- after running RH, Mandrake, and SuSE) I noticed an XFCE
> version of Ubuntu. Is there a way to shift "sideways" from the Gnome
> version to the XFCE version without doing a clean install? I suspect
> the answer will be no, but maybe someone a lot smarter than I am has
> figured out how to do it...

It shouldn't be hard:

sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop

But, note, that I haven't done this, and I suspect a fair amount of
packages will have to be downloaded, but certainly less than your
5.10->6.06 upgrade.

-Eamonn