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Offline dcwbis

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[Solved] LXDE / KDE Desktop Option on new computer
« on: January 27, 2012, 01:31:54 PM »
I am going to move my current setup to a new machine this weekend.
I current run LXDE - initially installed from 2011 09, faithfully updated.
I have separate partitions for /, swap, and home so I planned to run a current install/update from a new LXDE download and add the various packages that I have installed.  I will then reload the home partition from my backup.

I am interested in looking at KDE also.  Is it possible to add the KDE desktop?  Would this be done by installing task-kde4-minimal?  Selecting that indicates that 65 packages will be upgraded.  

Searching the forum I think that I will be given an option to choose a DE when logging in.  Is this correct?  
Thanks
« Last Edit: January 28, 2012, 09:08:40 AM by dcwbis »
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Offline Neal ManBear

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Re: LXDE / KDE Desktop Option on new computer
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2012, 04:51:27 PM »
At the login screen, click on Sessions to open your menu of choices of DEs to log in to.      

task-kde4-minimal will install the minimal amount of packages to have the kde desktop. You may want more than that.    
« Last Edit: January 27, 2012, 05:28:26 PM by old-polack »

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Re: LXDE / KDE Desktop Option on new computer
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2012, 05:33:45 PM »
task-kde4-minimal will install the minimal amount of packages to have the kde desktop. You may want more than that.    

Thanks Neal.  Is there an option other than task-kde4-minimal that would install a more complete kde desktop?
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Re: LXDE / KDE Desktop Option on new computer
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2012, 05:35:45 PM »
task-kde4     

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Re: LXDE / KDE Desktop Option on new computer
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2012, 06:03:47 PM »
task-kde4     
Neal, I do not see task-kde4 when I go into Synaptic. 
Doing a search for task my list goes from:
task-kadu
task-kde4-help
task-kde4-minimal   (which I was why I asked about this one)
task-kde-theme-coffee

I do not see just task-kde4.  I opened Synaptic and reloaded right before posting this.
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Re: LXDE / KDE Desktop Option on new computer
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2012, 09:03:01 PM »
Same here.  No task-kde4.  Re-loaded a few hours ago.

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Re: LXDE / KDE Desktop Option on new computer
« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2012, 09:07:15 PM »
Same here. Repo is http://ftp.ch.debian.org/mirror/pclinuxos/apt/. There's a task-kde4-minimal and a task-qt4. The full KDE4 metapackage has gone missing.
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Re: LXDE / KDE Desktop Option on new computer
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2012, 01:53:24 AM »
Open Synaptic > reload > lower left, click Sections > left menu, scroll down to Graphical desktop/KDE4 and click it. Your KDE4 packages will be shown on the right.     

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Re: LXDE / KDE Desktop Option on new computer
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2012, 09:07:57 AM »
Open Synaptic > reload > lower left, click Sections > left menu, scroll down to Graphical desktop/KDE4 and click it. Your KDE4 packages will be shown on the right.     
Thanks Neal.
That does it for me. 
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