I noticed that everyone has mentioned using apt to pull in a meta-package like kde or kde-desktop.
Not sure if you realize it - but you can use apt-get to ask for just the kalarm package. Apt is super-duper intelligent - it will actually install the right kde components that are needed for kalarm to work. So, nobody needs to install all of kde desktop just to get kalarm. I did this command: sudo apt-get -fu install kalarm followed by entering my password; followed by pressing enter at the [Y/n] prompt Kalarm works. I set an alarm, put it 2 minutes into the future. Watched the news for a couple of minutes. Alarm popped up to let me know that it worked. Total time to install? 108 seconds. Including download time (but it is a FIOS connection - it might actually take you 400 seconds or more with standard 1.5Mbit DSL) An issue far more serious than doing the piece of cake installation is that the window manager didn't put decoration on the window, so i had to hold the ALT key when dragging the window around with the mouse. I can do that easily enough, and I can access the context menu with Alt+Space so i can minimize and maximize, and resize the window - but really this is not functional from a user interaction standpoint. Does anyone know how to force the gnome window manager to decorate kde application windows? It took about 25 seconds to uninstall - with these commands: sudo apt-get remove kalarm sudo apt-get autoremove (removes the dependencies that apt brought in when you specified to install just the 'kalarm' package) Manny wrote: >>> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/install-kde-kubuntu-on-ubuntu/ >> Thanks. But ... >> >> It doesn't install software; only the desktop. >> >> Which means that I really can't use it to switch between managers; the >> kde menus will be very empty <frown>. >> >> I appreciate the link and I'll give it a go. >> >> Jeff > > ???? > 'sudo apt-get install kde-desktop' will install everything and the > kitchen sink. Including things like amarok, dolphin, etc. > > What software do you speak of? > > BTW although I didn't find it (kde-desktop) in synaptic, I did confirm > that the above command does indeed install kde with additional > software. Try it in a terminal, you'll see all the dependencies and > additional software that will get installed just type "n" to cancel. > > --Manny > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
