Want to try KDE in Ubuntu - how

Diss · 11 May 2006 at 07:05

Hi

Is it as simple as using Synamptic to instal the KDE packages - i assume this still leaves gnome as default.

And then chooing a KDE session (assuming the above adds it to the session list) and then choose a KDE session from 'options' on the login screen?

Is this OK or likely to mess thngs up?

thanks

Diss

Diss · 11 May 2006 at 21:02

thanks Una

It so nearly worked

Just got the following after the login screen that then stops KDE loading
"Could not read network connections list /home/voteslave/.DCOPsever_ubuntu__0"
Please check the dcop server program isrunning"

I checked synaptic and couldn't see that program

i googled and got stuff that was very similar but didn't really understand it - its was about file ownership i think - see here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/printthread.php?t=26208
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-26208.html

also i don't appear to even have this file :/home/voteslave/.DCOPsever_ubuntu.0

any suggestions?

Thanks

Diss · 12 May 2006 at 15:52

thanks Una

how do i do that?

i would add that i dug around somemore and sort of fixed it - but only by making my .kde directoryread/write/execute for all - sort of the opposite of what you suggest but presumably a lot less secure

interested to see how to do this properly

many thanks

Diss

Diss · 13 May 2006 at 06:18

tried aptget and got this message?

E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11 Resource temporari ly unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the download directory

related to my original probelm

thanks

diss

Diss · 13 May 2006 at 19:24

its worked now - previously i had opened the updater and am pretty sure i closed it - however this time i tried aptget first and all worked fine

thanks

Diss