Hi Everyone, can anyone tell me the command to reinstall my desktop in kubuntu 8.10 using kde 4.2 I tried sudo apt-get update wirh kubuntu-desktop but It didnt work I am pretty sure that the desktop name is not correct for kde 4.2 anyway I accidently deleted the desktop and i need to reinstall. Thanks to everyone in advance.

Are you sure you deleted it? I have just got off the phone to someone who has the same problem & I don't believe this person is capable of deleting it! There has been lots of issues with Intrepid today with mass broken bits in KDE. One of the pc's I fixed today had kdm missing!


Cary

Hi Yes I am sure I was tring to delete all of open office because the upgrade on it didnt work but in the process I also deleted the desktop. But I know what you mean I just got this new computer and I had a very hard time upgrading to kde 4.2 in the first place. Thank you so much for your reply do you know the command to reinstall the desktop?

caryb wrote:Are you sure you deleted it? I have just got off the phone to someone who has the same problem & I don't believe this person is capable of deleting it! There has been lots of issues with Intrepid today with mass broken bits in KDE. One of the pc's I fixed today had kdm missing!


Cary

It would be helpful to know what you mean exactly by "deleting your desktop". Did you remove the desktop packages? Or did you have a broken configuration so your desktop would look strange?

Hi yes I removed packages using the package manager tring to get open office working after I upgrade to 3.0 but it removed some other packages that removed my desktop anyway I tried all the commands to reinstall desktop but i keep getting errors that the packages were not available i tried apt-get update but still would not find the packages. I finally broke down and reinstalled the system. I still have not upgrade openoffice yet but i have everything elese updated and installed that needs to be. I ordered tio ubuntu books so hopefully I can fix most of my problems myself. Thank you so my for your reply I really appreciate it.

einar wrote:It would be helpful to know what you mean exactly by "deleting your desktop". Did you remove the desktop packages? Or did you have a broken configuration so your desktop would look strange?

Code: Select all

sudo apt-get install --reinstall kubuntu-desktop

If you have broken packages:

Code: Select all

sudo apt-get install -f