On Monday 31 Aug 2009, Terry Coles wrote:
> Well I'm halfway. I tried disabling the backports repository in
> KPackageKit, but didn't get any prompt. Perhaps if I'd originally done it
> in Synaptic it would have worked.
>
> Anyway, I've installed the XUbuntu desktop and am using it now. The good
> news is that all of my sound is working in here, proving that it was a KDE
> 4.3 update that broke it. The next step is to remove KDE and then let
> Synaptic put 4.2 back on.
Actually, instead of removing KDE 4.3, I logged back in to see if anything
worked. It does! Installing the XUbuntu desktop obviously updated the right
things, so in theory at least, I can just leave it as it is.
Just a couple more questions. When Synaptic installed the XUbuntu packages (I
wouldn't actually call it lightweight by the way, it put over 250 on ;-) ), it
asked me which Window Manager I wanted to use, offering kdm or gdm. Since I
thought that I would be removing KDE, I chose gdm. I assume that when I log
into KDE it automatically picks up the kdm Window Manager? How do I find out,
or would it simply not work?
The second question relates to updates. Now that I've reverted to the
standard Jaunty repository, will I still get them? I'm assuming that I won't
see any updates to KDE until 9.10 brings in 4.3 officially, in about 6 weeks
time, but that everything else will be OK. Any thoughts?
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Terry Coles
64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux
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