How to Troubleshoot Kubuntu/KDE

[Liam Proven]

On 12 May 2013 18:31, pete smout <psmouty at live.com> wrote:
>
> He is not the only person with a choice of GUI's installed im sure!

Oh, absolutely, yes!

But I regularly hear of people installing vanilla Ubuntu & then adding
their choice of desktop, seemingly not realising that it's available
pre-integrated. E.g. (if you will forgive me plugging my own article)
-- this piece: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/26/xbuntu_round_up/
-- has provoked several comments along the lines of "oh, I didn't know
there was a version with [desktop X]!"

> Failing that is it worth removing plasma-desktop and installing again or one
> of the suggestions Liam made?

No reason not to just do them as a 2nd stage.

I saw a Fedora box a couple of weeks ago with about half of GNOME 2
installed, because the user picked the wrong metapackage. There was
enough to log in, open terminals and some other apps -- but no panels,
no way to log out and so on. It's easily done.

Installing the /right/ metapackage as a second step will just "fill
in" the missing pieces, as it were.


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