Best way to pull a "side-grade"?

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 6/2/06, Peter N. Spotts <pspotts at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:41:47 +0100
> "Eamonn Sullivan" <eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
>
> Ahh...the light bulb goes off -- uninstall the ubuntu-desktop, then
> install the xubuntu?

or just install xubunut-desktop. No need to uninstall. You can have
both, I believe. I've done that with edubuntu-desktop. Then if you
don't like xubuntu, you can just go back.

-Eamonn