KDE eradication and now ...

[Mark Miller]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Roy Smith <amigaman at rsmith59.heliohost.org
> wrote:

> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I don't know whether or not if it's possible for one meta-package to
> have a dependency for another meta-package.  But it would seem like that
> would be the logical thing to do if it was possible.
>
> --
>
> Roy Smith
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>
>
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check out


http://tnerd.com/2008/11/12/how-to-uninstall-or-remove-kde-and-restore-gnome-desktop-manager-in-ubuntu/

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Mark C. Miller
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