Is there an easy way to install Ubuntu over Kubuntu?

[pcgamer321]

Hi, I installed Kubuntu, and well KDE isn't exactly what I wanted. To confusing, so I want to go back to Ubuntu. Is there an easy way to do it, or do I have to go through the whole installation, partition drive thing again?

 

[xSauronx]

you can just install ubuntu-desktop package and change your session at the login screen from KDE to Gnome

from the cli: sudo aptitude install ubuntu-desktop
itll do its thing
you log out
at the login screen hit the "session" button
select Gnome
login, tada.

 

[The Keeper]

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
Select GDM as your login manager and then login to gnome after install is done.

sudo apt-get remove kubuntu-desktop && sudo apt-get autoremove
Should remove all your KDE and its apps that aren't needed by Gnome.

Or you can use aptitude instead of apt-get if that's what you prefer.

 

[pcgamer321]

Ah, thanks guys.

Yea, I want to basically delete Kubuntu after Ubuntu us installed.

 

[Nothinman]

There's probably a kubuntu-desktop meta-package that you can remove to get rid of most, if not all, of KDE but it won't buy you anything other than disk space. Having both installed doesn't hurt.

 

[pcgamer321]

Well, I like my disc space.

I also like to remove as much unnecessary stuff as possible.

 

[ultra laser]

Go into synaptic and remove the kubuntu-desktop package and pretty much everything else that starts with K. It's a fairly simple process; and like nothinman pointed out, all you'll gain is disk space, so it's not really that important.

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/puregnome

 

[Net]

why don't you just do and apt get gnome