How to get a KDE to run

[Steven Susbauer]

On Sun, 10 May 2009 13:40:40 -0500, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>
>>>     I am on my 8.10 Linux and I used $ sudo aptitude install kde and it
>>> did so. But when I rebooted it still has Gnome Window Manager. It said
>>> something about looking at /etc/init.c and setting the default  
>>> properly.
>>> I will try that and see.
>>>
>>
>> When it boots and you come to the gnome login screen you can choose what
>> kind of session you want and what you want as default.
>>
>>
>     Not on this laptop. I got it to stop at the screen to login with and
> clicked on options and looked at everything and no kde was even  
> mentioned.
>
> So the heck with kde. It's too hard to get working on 8.10. I am sure it
> is all installed but it sure is not working...
>
>
> Karl
>
>

If you want to use all of the kde stuff, you might try installing  
kubuntu-desktop. I believe there is more to kde than just one package.

Or just give up on it. :)

  Cheers,
    Steve