change from edubuntu to ubuntu 8.04

[norman]

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>   
> > Startup synaptics-package-manager and install the package 
> > ubuntu-desktop. that ought to do everything you want, keeping every 
> > setting you have.
> > That is, you need to have room enough on your edubuntu partition.
> >
> >   
> Which will not result in a default Ubuntu install, as by default the 
> package ubuntu-desktop isn't even installed. I found that out by 
> searching Synaptic one day on my Ubuntu 8.04 installation, and was very 
> surprised to find out it was not installed.

How very odd, it is installed on my Ubuntu 8.10.

Norman