Kubuntu 18.04.2 LTS -> Ubuntu 19.04

Volker Wysk post at volker-wysk.de
Mon Jun 17 14:53:44 UTC 2019


Am Sonntag, den 16.06.2019, 13:32 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson:
> On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 02:16:42PM +0200, Volker Wysk wrote:
> > What I'm not sure about: Is a KDE version contained in Ubuntu (no
> > "K"),
> > or is it only in Kubuntu? I don't want to give it up completely. At
> > least there are some KDE programs which I want to keep using.
> 
> Ubuntu Desktop [1] and Kubuntu are both part of the same Ubuntu
> package
> archive.  The released images preinstall different sets of packages
> from
> that archive, but each has the same archive available on installed
> systems.
> 
> Put differently: the Ubuntu Desktop images don't contain KDE, but an
> installed Ubuntu Desktop system can install KDE-based packages just
> as
> an installed Kubuntu system can.  Many Ubuntu Desktop users use the
> odd
> KDE-based package, just as they use any of a wide variety of other
> packages that aren't actually part of the base installation.
> 
> [1] I'm clarifying this in a way that would normally be a bit
> pedantic,
>     as unmarked "Ubuntu" can be used to refer to either the
> "flagship"
>     desktop and server editions, or to the package archive (or indeed
>     project) as a whole.
> 

You have made it clear. Thanks.

Volker






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