Ubuntu and Kubuntu

[mass09]

For those of you who are running Ubuntu(Gnome) and would like to test out Kubuntu(KDE) simply run the following command in terminal :
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

The download will be roughly 170MB.

Once downloaded and installed, logout and in the session drop down menu select KDE and login. Once done with Kubuntu logout and select Ubuntu. It's quite nice having both installed if you want to play around with both desktop environments. You won't lose any of your data this way.

And if you are running Kubuntu you could install Ubuntu(Gnome) with the nearly the same command :
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

Enjoy

 

[Avenue]

sweet, I must give that a shot

 

[fskmh]

For those of you who are running Ubuntu(Gnome) and would like to test out Kubuntu(KDE) simply run the following command in terminal :
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

I remember doing that in a VM, I think with 9.04, and it totally screwed up the icons and theme widgets.

 

[Pooky]

Thanks for that. Will it work with the netbook version?

 

[mass09]

I remember doing that in a VM, I think with 9.04, and it totally screwed up the icons and theme widgets.

I did it with 10.10 and no issues thus far.

Thanks for that. Will it work with the netbook version?

I believe so, but it will download the desktop Kubuntu environment, maybe try the Kubuntu netbook edition package with the following command : sudo apt-get install kubuntu-netbook