change from edubuntu to ubuntu 8.04

[Chris Rees]

2009/1/5 norman <norman at littletank.org>:
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>> > Startup synaptics-package-manager and install the package
>> > ubuntu-desktop. that ought to do everything you want, keeping every
>> > setting you have.
>> > That is, you need to have room enough on your edubuntu partition.
>> >
>> >
>> Which will not result in a default Ubuntu install, as by default the
>> package ubuntu-desktop isn't even installed. I found that out by
>> searching Synaptic one day on my Ubuntu 8.04 installation, and was very
>> surprised to find out it was not installed.
>
> How very odd, it is installed on my Ubuntu 8.10.
>
> Norman

You might find that it's a meta-port; it installs nothing, but depends
on all the packages to make Ubuntu-vanilla work. That would make it
possible to have Ubuntu with GNOME etc without it...

Chris



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