Hello All Fellow Ubuntu and Kubuntu people. and to the Ubuntu-Australian list
Hello All, And hello to all of the nice and friendly ppl I met at the Linux.conf.auOpen Day yesterday @ the Hobart Wrest Point - Tasman Rooms. I was really pleased to finally met so very many friendly faces... everyone was very nice!!! (of course!) My system now seems to be quite stable. This website help me a lot: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/puregnomehardy I ended up using the *Remove Kubuntu* Pasting the command (in the black box) into the terminal shell (which is an extremely long command!!!) Fingers-crossed it seems to have worked. I now have a Gnome DE with Ubuntu 8.04 - the Hardy Heron - released in April 2008 (according to the help page). I'm now happily using AMAROK fantastic music playing program and listening to some of my ripped music -- The Beatles! I'm still gradually tweaking my system -- but it seems to be working fine!!! ;-) Yours Faithfully, Optimistically and With Much Love, PEW aka PeteThePoet from Hobart, Australia Fond Regards, Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia -- phone (03) 6236-9675 My free website is: http://pewtas.googlepages.com (or) http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs (please visit my free website and let me know what you think about it.) Robert Benchley - "Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing." 2009/1/25 Matthew Flaschen <[email protected]> > Peter Williams wrote: > > I urgently need help to fix my computer. I have previously had Kubuntu > > 8.04 installed and it seemed to be working okay. Then I decided that I > > did not want to use KDE 4 > > Can you explain further? Kubuntu 8.04 (which I'm using) comes with KDE > 3.5. Did you install the kde4 package? > > > and only use the Gnome Desktop Manager with > > KDE 3.5. > > Why not just use KDE 3.5? > > > I used the Synaptic Package Manager to remove much of the KDE 4 > > with the intention of keeping KDE 3.5 and using the Gnome Desktop > Manager. > > You probably removed KDE 3.5. > > > If I boot my computer WITHOUT the Mint Linux 5.1 Live Boot disk -- then > > I get dumped at the terminal login screen for Kubuntu 8.04 (I think). > > The terminal login screen confuses me no-end.... > > As Eberhard said, you should be able to just enter the same user name > and password you used for the graphical login. If you can successfully > login, do: > > sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop --reinstall > > That should install Kubuntu again. It may take a long time. When it > completes, do > > sudo reboot > > Your computer will restart, and KDE (3.5) should be up and running again. > > If you can't login, post the actual prompt you're looking at. > > > quote: --- > > > > System Settings / Advanced / Autostart -- click Add Program. Type in > > nm-applet which is the Gnome one. From then on it should start with the > > KDE Session. > > > > ----end quote. > > That's information about NetworkManager. It won't help you get your GUI > back. > > > And the newer KDE 4 programs were conflicting with the older KDE 3.5 > programs. > > Yes, a beginner really shouldn't be using kde4 on 8.04. > > Matt Flaschen > >
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