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c2tarun
January 3rd, 2011, 02:23 PM
hi friends
right now i m using ubuntu 10.04 lucid. I installed KDE and liked it very much. Now I want to switch to kubuntu.
Can any one please tell me how to install kubuntu and remove ubuntu. I have 3 partitions on my hard disk. I don't want to delete other two partitions.


one more question. Can anyone please tell me how to download kubuntu from following link using wget or gwget.
http://www.kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/download#download-block

oldos2er
January 3rd, 2011, 07:23 PM
Did you try KDE by installing kubuntu-desktop? The only difference between Ubuntu and Kubuntu is the desktop environment, everything "under the hood" is the same; so if you removed the gnome packages you have installed, you'd essentially be left with Kubuntu. See http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/purekde

Direct links:

32-bit here: http://mirrors.cytanet.com.cy/linux/ubuntu/releases/10.10/ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso

64-bit here: http://mirrors.cytanet.com.cy/linux/ubuntu/releases/10.10/ubuntu-10.10-desktop-amd64.iso