Comments on: Install KDE Desktop in Ubuntu

By: Joe Collins

Joe Collins — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:22:29 +0000

Hi,

I just installed Ubuntu 9.04 and I’m find bug after bug… It seems to get worse with each update! Would KDE help? The bugs all seem to related to the Gnome desktop. My apps run great. Also, can I use Firefox, Evolution and my other apps that I’ve already set up in Gnome with KDE. I’m a newby.. so any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

By: michael

michael — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:23:40 +0000

i figured it out, it was a samba package messing it up….strange…..

By: Admin

Admin — Sat, 30 May 2009 19:16:44 +0000

try to run the following command

sudo apt-get -f install

By: michael

michael — Sat, 30 May 2009 02:47:32 +0000

tried getting kubuntu desktop….this is what i got, i would appreciate any help i can get, thanks.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kubuntu-desktop: Depends: smbclient but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
mike1@hackersanonymous:~$ apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock – open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
mike1@hackersanonymous:~$ sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kubuntu-desktop: Depends: smbclient but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

By: Admin

Admin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:57:35 +0000

@matt

If you install desktop environment try to run the following command

startx

if it is not opening definitely some disply problem

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:40:22 +0000

I tried Ubuntu 8.1 on my PS3 and instead of going to a main screen it goes directly to the sudo command line. How do I get it to go to the desktop?

By: Mohan

Mohan — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:30:25 +0000

Sorry I meant install and not remove.
Bleh need to get some sleep.

By: Mohan

Mohan — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:29:07 +0000

Deepak, Linux isn’t like Windows where you go about searching for web sites and links to download software (packages).
Just type “sudo apt-get remove kubuntu-desktop” in the terminal window to get the K package.

By: deepak

deepak — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:02:14 +0000

i have a problem . please provide me a “link” from where i can download packages of kde environment for ubuntu 8.10 .

By: Abhilash

Abhilash — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:38:54 +0000

Thanks Sir!!

It really works…It was an useful installation tip.

By: peter

peter — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:36:54 +0000

Edit: Kubuntu 6.06 not Xubuntu 6.06 in earlier post

By: peter

peter — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:33:19 +0000

Recently installed the alternate version of xubuntu 6.06 Dapper on my Toshiba tecra 520cdt, running a 166MHZ MMX on 160MB ram, 40gb HD and DVD-Rom drive. It starts up in text mode and i want to change it to GUI / Desktop. I assume i use the commands above to install off the CD in the drive or will it require network connection to get the desktop?

thanks

By: Manish K Gupta

Manish K Gupta — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:48:02 +0000

HI there.
I tried to intall KDE and XFace through synaptic package manager and the way you suggested but in both the processess it give s the same errors
unresolvable dependencies
the following is printed as it is
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard [ToH]-RC2 SSE3/SSE2 Intel Only
Please help me

Thanks in Advance

By: Tonio

Tonio — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:11:54 +0000

Is there a way to update to KDE4 from this? Is KDE4 stable? Thanks for your help.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:55:22 +0000

Very good guide. Just installing kde now!

By: cacycleworks chris

cacycleworks chris — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:58:47 +0000

Thanks for the great page! I knew of this but had forgotten it!!

When Hardy Heron came out, my working laptop upgraded and then became unstable. I tried all kinds of ways to get KDE working on that Dell D630. The very last step I tried before simply going down the list of distributions was to install ubuntu and then apt-get install kubuntu-desktop.

It worked. Not only that, this was the first time I’ve ever had sound, wireless, video all working perfectly on an install — or in kubuntu.

Nice!
Thanks,
Chris

By: Jannhoney

Jannhoney — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:27:57 +0000

Thanks guys nice piece of info,

By: ugur

ugur — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:49:53 +0000

i did not use aptitude while installing kubuntu-desktop, so how can i uninstall it? which of the aptitude one or the autoremove one convenient for me?

By: Erkki Aikamies

Erkki Aikamies — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:28:48 +0000

kubuntu-desktop is meta package and won’t remove anything and autoremove doesen’t help.

sudo apt-get remove kubuntu-desktop doesent work.

The proper command is
sudo aptitude remove kubuntu-desktop
(If you used aptitude to install the package)

If you still want to remove ubuntu or kubuntu and all genome/kde programs, then you must make a list of the packages.
Fortunately here is comlete list:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purexfce

P.S.
If you use option purge, it will remove allso all configuration files,

By: Ralvy

Ralvy — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:17:57 +0000

This is Great . . .Thanx Man