I'm switching over to lubuntu11.10

[Jaime Jaramillo]

> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:20:06 +0100
> Subject: Re: I'm switching over to lubuntu11.10
> From: lproven at gmail.com
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> 
> On 28 October 2011 05:34, Jon Anderson <jbander at izoom.net> wrote:
> > If you just want to use the Lubuntu desktop, you don't need to reinstall.
> >
> > First, upgrade to 11.10 using update-manager. When it's done, reboot
> > into 11.10 and do
> >
> > apt-get install lubuntu-desktop
> >
> > Log out (or better still reboot) and you will find that the Lubuntu
> > desktop is now an option on the login screen.
> >
> > You don't need the ISO that you downloaded - not unless you want to
> > dual-boot between Ubuntu and Lubunt
> >
> > You say"
> > First, upgrade to 11.10 using update-manager. When it's done, reboot
> > into 11.10 and do"
> >
> > You mean yo use the update manager to upgrade to ubuntu 11.10 first ?
> 
> That's right.
> 
> You could do it the other way round, but that means downloading and
> installing "lubuntu-desktop" first and then upgrading it.
> 
> > By the
> > way thanks I was getting a head ache trying to figure everything else out.
> > Your way is a lot easier.
> 
> If you have /home on a separate filesystem - that is, in its own disk
> partition - then you can install 2 (or more) different copies of
> Ubuntu, each with their own root (`/`) filesystem but sharing the same
> /home filesystem and swap partition. This works fine - I've done it
> many times. If each has a different desktop, for instance, 1 is
> Ubuntu, 1 is Lubuntu, plus say Kubuntu and Xubuntu, then they can all
> have the same user account, too.
> 
> If you try to share 2 or more distros with the /same/ desktop on a
> single user account, e.g. Mint and Ubuntu, then the settings for that
> desktop will trample on one another, so each time you boot into the
> other distro, the theme settings and so on will be from the previous
> one and it gets a bit muddled. It works but not flawlessly.
> 
> Different desktops use different config files so it's no problem.
> 
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Hi

I did it and works (Lubuntu and Xubuntu), and not used the ISO CD.
1. upgrade to 11.102. install lubuntu desktop
I just log out and log in Lubuntu, and that is it. 
Thanks 
J3 		 	   		  
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