On Monday 31 Aug 2009, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> According to #dorset on IRC, we think the easiest way may be to install
> a lightweight alternative to KDE, like xubuntu-desktop. Switch to that.
> And then use synaptic to remove the PPA and its packages, removing KDE.
> Apparently, synaptic will show you installed packages that aren't in
> repositories. Once that's done, so KDE's gone and the PPA, install the
> normal kubuntu-desktop.
Hmmm. I can see that this might well work. At least, if it goes wrong, I'll
be no worse off than if I'd just gone for a clean install right from the
start.
One question. What is PPA?
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Terry Coles
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