Best way to pull a "side-grade"?

[Peter N. Spotts]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:55:57 +0100
"Eamonn Sullivan" <eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 

Thanks,

Pete

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