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Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Apr 20 00:07:07 UTC 2007


OOzy Pal wrote:

> I have Kubuntu installed and I would like to install ubuntu and remvoe
> kubuntu. 

Ack!  Evil!!!

> What should I do? 
> 
> sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
> sudo apt-get remove kubuntu-desktop
> 
> will this do the job?
 
Not really.  That will remove a virtual package that doesn't actually do
anything.  Since you're using apt-get you'll need to use something like
deborphan to find the packages that depended on it.  If you'd been using
aptitude removing kubuntu-desktop would have removed all the kde stuff too.
-- 
derek





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