Switch to KDE on Fedora 18

[Bill Oliver]

Well, I don't know about F18 release, but I installed F18 beta and assume that I have the same thing as F18 release since I've been updating.

The way I did it was pretty naive, perhaps, but it worked.  I did the following:

1) Installed from the gnome CD.
2) Installed apper (which installed a bunch of kde stuff as
dependencies)
3) Used apper to search for KDE and then just hit "install" on a few basic kde packages and a few kde apps.  Apper then decided that there were a zillion kde dependencies.  I installed all of them.

I then googled on how to set it as my default (I forget which file I edited, but it was straightforward).

Ta daah!

Of course, doing it this way doesn't install *all* the kde-associated apps, but it got the desktop up.  After that, I just went to apper again and clicked on all the kde stuff I wanted to add.

billo



On Sat, 19 Jan 2013, Michael Eager wrote:

> On 01/19/2013 01:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 01/19/2013 12:44 PM, Michael Eager wrote:
>>> I just installed F18 from the live CD.  I'm trying
>>> to install and switch to KDE.
>>> 
>>> If I enter "switchdesk kde", I get a message saying to
>>> run "yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)".
>>> Yum says that Group KDE does not exist.
>>> 
>>> Other than re-installing from the F18-Live-KDE CD, how
>>> can I switch desktops?
>>> 
>> 
>> Your question contains its own answer.  As root, use yum to install KDE the 
>> way the message tells
>> you to.
>
> My message also contained the response from yum, that
> Group KDE does not exist.
>
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