Installing Kbuntu on 9.10

[Bob]

Good Morning,

I tried to do what you had said regarding chown and I get an error   chown: 
missing operand after 'bob:/home/bob'

Any thoughts?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin Law" <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions" 
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: Installing Kbuntu on 9.10


> 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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