KDE eradication and now ...

[Karl F. Larsen]

Roy Smith wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>>     When I started this morning to try kde I made several errors of 
>> ignorance. Alas the Ubuntu system does not protect us from ignorance. I 
>> was able to do $ sudo aptitude install kde and it sent me a whole lot of 
>> files. But didn't work. Error 1.
>>
>>     Since this didn't work I then started the synpatic file system and 
>> it also has a lot of kde files. I clicked on kde and a whole bunch were 
>> lit up. I installed these files. I then got a real kde desktop but it 
>> didn't work properly. Error 2.
>>
>>     Just now I did a couple of "remove" things and now I have what 
>> appears to be a clean gnome based 8.10 that works because this message 
>> is typed on it.
>>
>>     Now I plan to use the $ sudo aptitude kubuntu-desktop   and see what 
>> damage it can do. At least I will have just one thing to remove if it 
>> fails :-)
>>     
>
> If you want to get the complete KDE desktop then do this in a terminal:
>
> $ sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop kde
>
> If you want to see what's going to be installed then do this:
>
> $ aptitude show kubuntu-desktop
> $ aptitude show kde
>
> This will show you all the packages that will be installed, naturally
> any duplicates between the two meta-packages will be ignored.
>
>   
    Hi Roy, I think that might be educational, but I am just trying to 
make both gnome and kde work. Using $ sudo aptitude install 
kubuntu-desktop has fixed my system. I do think it would be nice if when 
an idiot tries to get kde, the system should suggest that you really 
want kubuntu-desktop. Same with the synaptic system.


Karl