Thanks Jonathan. For the record, after re-starting , the "updates available" icon was still showing a large number of updates to install. Clicking it seemed to finish off configuring (which I thought my earlier commands had done - shows how well I understand apt).
...now to see what else KDE have managed to break in this release ;-) -- kde4.2 install failed: dependency problems https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/324277 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase-runtime in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs