Kubuntu installation

[mamario62]

Good day.
I'm just effected my registration to this forum.
I'm a fresh user of linux and a one day user of kubuntu.
I'm trying to set up the system, easy job if you know the so.
Kubuntu is installed aside ubuntu, with a primary partition / if 15gb, a logical ext3 /home 460 gb shared with ubuntu and a swap of 9 gb.
One question per discussion:
1 - During the manual installation I have mounted the logical ext3 /home, now kubuntu e ubuntu can share the files but Kubuntu created is home/home folder so I was forced to redirect all the programs.
Is there a way to rename the home/home folder?
For your guidance please see the partitions:

umber Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 15.0GB 15.0GB primary ext3 boot
3 15.0GB 30.0GB 15.0GB primary ext3
2 30.0GB 500GB 470GB extended
5 30.0GB 491GB 461GB logical ext3
6 491GB 500GB 9305MB logical linux-swap(v1)

Thanks for a suggestion

[james147]

Firstly a word of warning: Sharing configuration files between different installs can leads to corruption in those files or programs refusing to start or use the configs. This is mainly due to the version difference between the software, if a newer program upgrades the configs then an older version in the other os will have problems reading it leading to undefined behaviour (depending on the program). If you keep ubuntu and kubuntu at the same version then you will suffer less... but it you do this you might as well install kubuntu-desktop inside ubuntu or ubuntu-desktop inside kubuntu and just have the one OS with two desktop environments which you can switch between at the login screen (tell my if you need this explained in more detail). A recommended approach if you do want separate installed is to create a data partition and share that between the installs.

If you wish to continue as is some more information would be useful -

1. How did you mount it during install?
2. What are the contents of /etc/fstab?
3. What is the output of the command mount

[mamario62]

Thank you so much for your reply.
I excuse me in advance if I will not be clear, but I'm learning...
Ubuntu has its bootloader in /dev/sda, kubuntu in /dev/sda3. If I right understood kubuntu is inside ubuntu.
When I installed kubuntu I mounted /dev/sda3 (its primary part.) on / and I mounted /dev/sda5 on /home.

Command 'mount'

mario@mario-kubuntu:~$ mount
/dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/sda5 on /home type ext3 (rw)

Fstab

/etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=86f57010-fce2-4837-a8fb-905cefbaea54 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=a4a0a3e5-5ece-4641-8e98-a216f1cbc568 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=ec99d96c-384a-4954-a47f-4e11cb59dabd none swap sw 0 0

Hope the above can help
Thanks

[james147]

That all seems correct so I see no reason why kubuntu would have created /home/home... what are the contents of it?

[mamario62]

Probably I explained unclear my problem.
Ubuntu system is called...'mamario' so I have root/home/mamario with all my files, now on Kubuntu called mario, I have root/home/mario with all same folders, empty by now, as mamario. I probably had to call the system with the same name?
An example, Thunderbird is continuing to display that cannot find contacts in home/.local/share/contacts, that appears not to exist in ubuntu.

[james147]

/home/ is where all the user home folders are stored (Equivalent to "Documents and Settings" in windows). It is normally named after the user, so /home/mamario should belong to the user mamario. Since the drive is share between them both /home/mamario and /home/mario should exist. All your files and settings should be in /home/mamario.

[mamario62]

In other words, James, I should name mamario the kubuntu system?
Have you any suggestion for me to obtain this situation now?

In any case many thanks for your posts that clarify my doubts.

[james147]

In other words, James, I should name mamario the kubuntu system?
Have you any suggestion for me to obtain this situation now?

In any case many thanks for your posts that clarify my doubts.

Personally I would boot ubuntu and install "kubuntu-desktop" then you will have both kde and gnome on the same system and you wont ahve to worry about it. You can then login to either desktop environment by selecting it in the login manager.

You could also change the home directory of your user to the old path in system settings > user managment

[mamario62]

Thank you very much James.
I will look for info about 'kubuntu-desktop' and I will follow your suggestion.
Now I have to find out how to put 'solved' in my topic...
Thanks and bye.