Issues installing KDE 4.4

[Mark Greenwood]

On Thursday 11 Feb 2010 14:24:09 Georgi Kourtev wrote:
> 
> > 
> > The recommended way to install version upgrades is to use apt-get:
> > 
> > sudo apt-get update
> > 
> > sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> > 
> > For some reason unknown to me the aptitude full-upgrade command
> > doesn't work here.
> > 
> > 
> > Regards, Myriam
> 
> Myriam,
> 
> This seems a good suggestions.  Meanwhile, I removed klipper and plasma-
> desktop, run aptutude ubdate and upgrade, then installed back klipper and 
> plasma-desktop, and now it works. I'll check Miriam suggestions on my other 
> machine.
> gk
> 
> 

I'm glad I read this before I did the upgrade.. after I did it I rebooted to a blank desktop. Even Ctrl-Alt-F4 didn't get me to a terminal. Luckily I was able to run Konsole by pressing Alt-F2. I found out that plasma-desktop wasn't even installed! How on earth did *that* happen?

Now, can anybody tell me how I stop KDE from starting Akonadi every time I run KMail? I'm not using it and it takes an age.

Also, why do I keep getting a popup that tells me the Nepomuk isn't running? I *know* it isn't running, I disabled the blooming thing on purpose!

Mark