Best way to pull a "side-grade"?

[Peter N. Spotts]

On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:07:49 +0100
Yorvik <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Eamonn Sullivan 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.
> > 
> I have  gnome, X  & KDE installed and just choose which one I want
> when I boot up.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> SteVe
> 
> 

Ah, I realize that. But I was hoping to pare down the amount of
stuff on the hard drive. (Gotta squeeze in those extra *.ogg files!) I'm
not using KDE or Gnome, so I figure I'd do some housecleaning.
Actually, I use Fluxbox on a regular basis, which is even leaner than
XFCE. But if XFCE is leaner than KDE or Gnome, I'd rather have XFCE
resident instead of the other two...

Best,

Pete

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