Gnome of kubuntu
 

Hi,

How do I install Gnome on my kubuntu 6.06? And how do I get it to always ask if I want kde or Gnome on start-up?

I'm a newbie who thinks KDE is going to be the desktop manager they want to use, but I'd like to be able to try Gnome as well.

Thanks for any help,

Merlyn

sudo aptitude install ubuntu-desktop or sudo aptitude install gnome. The first one will probably install a bunch of extra stuff you would find if you had installed ubuntu instead of kubuntu (a different program set). If you just want gnome, I'd go with the second one.

As for the desktop manager selection, I think it's on the login screen under "Session" or the like.

That's great. Thanks for eveyone's help.

side question:
 

Will the application installed in KDE be available in gnome, i think they will, just wanna make sure?

Each application for each desktop environment will be available in each other. It can get messy thought, installing something like KDesktop Menu can help organise it more neatly, however.

I want to install ubuntu-dekstop onto kubuntu form cd-rom. I have the new ubuntu 6.06, ,but the aptitude install ubuntu-desktop command does work, wants internet connection! already added cd to repository

That would be because the version on the CD is older than the version from the net. The only way you could do it (not really recommended but..) is to comment out all the internet sources, run then re-enable the sources and update. I can't say for sure that this will though because of dependences, it may just be simpler to install from the net. If you don't have a connection on the system and you can use another connection you can use
to get apt to print the URIs to download and where to save them so you can put them on a CD and transfer them to the system.