download kubuntu

[Lionel van den Berg]

Donatas G. wrote:
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> Lionel van den Berg ra??:
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>>Martin J Hooper wrote:
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>>>If he has a plain Ubuntu install then a simple:
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>>>sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
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>>>will get KDE packages and other software installed.
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>>>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InstallingKDE - Has info on installing Kubuntu.
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>>Thanks, I'm aware of how to upgrade, but I'm wondering if the Kubuntu
>>download comes with gnome and there is some way that he has booted into
>>gnome? If so is it likely KDE is already installed, could it be on the cd?
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> Were your friend to install Kubuntu from a cd, he would have ONLY KDE as
> a desktop. Kubuntu CD comes without Gnome.
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> He must have installed Ubuntu, which comes only with Gnome Desktop, and
> in that case he does not have KDE desktop.
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> When he has both desktops (he can run a command in the Konsole
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> sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
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> to get a working KDE desktop), he will be able to choose between the
> environments at system startup. Both KDM (KDE desktop manager) and GDM
> (default Gnome Desktop Manager) give you an ability to choose environments.

Thank you. I sent him the direct link, the funny thing is the iso that 
he downloaded was called kubuntu-5.04-install-i386.iso so I have no idea 
what happened! Looks like I will be getting him to download 
kubuntu-desktop after all.

Lionel