Installing Kbuntu on 9.10

[Colin Law]

On 2 March 2010 15:09, Bob <bob at theoriginalgrassmasters.com> wrote:
> Thanks! I'm not sure what I installed. I assumed (I know I should not have)
> that there was only one KDE. I may have done sudo apt get kubuntu or
> somthing like that.
>
> This is all way new to me so I have a big curve to work with.

It is a good plan to keep a note of what you do and of any error
messages.  Then it is more likely that someone will be able to help.

Colin

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nils Kassube" <kassube at gmx.net>
> To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 9:49 AM
> Subject: Re: Installing Kbuntu on 9.10
>
>
>> Bob wrote:
>>> For ease of use I have been trying to install Kbuntu gui on my server
>>>  9.10. I have installed and uninstalled and reinstalled a few times
>>>  and continue to get a couple of errors.
>>
>> What did you install? If you want to upgrade your server to Kubuntu, it
>> would be the package kubuntu-desktop which pulls in the rest. Maybe you
>> used the wrong package?
>>
>>> configuration file /home/bob/.kde/share/config/knotifyrc not
>>>  writeable
>>
>> If the file exists, it may have changed ownership if you have used sudo
>> together with a GUI program. Make sure you have write permission for the
>> /home/bob/.kde/ directory tree. You could change the ownership of your
>> entire $HOME with the command
>>
>> sudo chown -R $USER: $HOME
>>
>> and in the future use kdesudo instead of sudo for GUI programs.
>>
>>> If this is not the right place to post I apologize as I tried to
>>>  login to the forums and I told my address is not recognized.
>>
>> I can't tell you about the forum but this is the right place to ask.
>> Either here or on the Kubuntu-users list [1].
>>
>>
>> Nils
>>
>> [1] <https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users>
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