get rid of KDE?

**geeve420** · February 26th, 2013

I installed Kubuntu 12.04 and just couldn't get used to it and went on and downloaded and installed unity using:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop.

How can I get rid KDE? Do I even need to? That's all I really need to know...

Thanks

Geeve

**oldos2er** · February 26th, 2013

http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/pureubuntu

**geeve420** · February 26th, 2013

Thanks oldos! When running that command should I skip

&& sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

at the end because I already have it?

Thanks again

Geeve

**3Miro** · February 27th, 2013

Originally Posted by geeve420

Thanks oldos! When running that command should I skip

&& sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

at the end because I already have it?

Thanks again

Geeve

If ubuntu-desktop is already installed, then the apt-get install command will simply exit without doing anything. I would run the command just to double-check.

**geeve420** · February 27th, 2013

Ran the code from the link and got this error:

Code:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package kubuntu-desktop is not installed, so not removed
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 default-jre : Depends: openjdk-6-jre (>= 6b23~pre11-1ubuntu1~) but it is not going to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

Did some searching, but can't find if anyone has actually solved this yet.

ran into this:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2002928&page=2

It says that Kubuntu desktop is not installed, that can't be though. When I reboot, it's the KDE login, I can also choose KDE to log in to and it works just fine....

Any ideas?

Thanks for all your help so far

**oldos2er** · February 27th, 2013

kubuntu-desktop is just a metapackage; if APT says it's not installed, I'd believe it.

What does

Code:

ls /usr/share/xsessions/

say?

**geeve420** · February 28th, 2013

Not sure, it would be whatever was installed with Kubuntu

Sorry still real green at this....

I did however take a look at the dependecies that are attached to the java wrapper, turns out they are flash inastaller, software center, and unity greeter. I can not for the life of me get them to go through.

I also found out that synaptic will not open unless I force it through the terminal using:

Code:

gksu-synaptic

Then when I had it open I tried to install something else and got an error saying that there is an apt-get process already running" and to run

Code:

sudo dpkg-configure -a

That then tells me to install aptitude to make it easier, well...... I can't because an apt-get is already running LOL...

Well in light of the obvious mess I have on my hands here I have decided that a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 is in order!!

I really appreciate you trying to help, but like I said, I think the best course of action unfortunately is to start over with the right stuff first...

Thanks Again

Geeve