Trouble with KDE - Please help

[Guest]

Hello,
I have just installed Kubuntu 10.10 yesterday and after struggling a little bit to set everything up on my macbook pro i came across an application (Avant Window Manager - http://wiki.awn-project.org/Installation:Ubuntu ) and i thought it would be even better experience having it installed IN ADDITION with the rest beautiful things that were there when i installed Kubuntu.. BUT after installing it my Kde environment does not exist! it boots up with an error, in the Ubuntu appearance instead of Kubuntu. Can anyone help? Are there any specific packages which make up the Kubuntu environment on top of Ubuntu? and if yes how can i manually reinstall them?

[kubicle]

Re: Trouble with KDE - Please help

Avant comes with pretty heavy gnome depends/recommends (packages that get installed with avant). Your KDE should not have disappeared, it should still be available from the session button in the login screen. Just choose the "KDE" session before logging in.

If you wish to get rid of "unnecessary" gnome stuff (and install avant with only the essential depends), you can perform these steps:

sudo apt-get purge avant-window-navigator

(removes avant main package)

sudo apt-get autoremove

(removes packages installed as dependencies/recommends that are not needed, since avant has been removed)

sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install avant-window-navigator

(installs avant back with only essential dependencies, no recommends)

There are also fairly similar kde plasma-widgets available, like "plasma-widget-fancytasks" or "plasma-widget-daisy".