Hi Tim,

Thanks for that!

I will for the moment stay with Gnome, but I use KDE applications I don't want to leave, such as Kile and Kdvi.

I posted at the Ubuntu forum and the Feedback page, the following problem:

After tweaking the repository, I could install kile-kde3 and kdvi-kde3 without problem.

Now I can even run these programs with a huge command like

PATH=/opt/kde3/bin:/opt/kde3/games:/opt/kde3/bin:$PATH KDEDIRS=/usr/:/opt/kde3/ KDEHOME=$HOME/.kde3 XDG_DATA_DIRS=/opt/kde3/share/:/usr/share/ MANPATH=/opt/kde3/share/man kile

but I can't click on a .tex or .kileprj file to open with Kile, and I don't have Kile or Kdvi on the applications menu.

I know it is probably ridiculously easy to fixe these, but I don't know how to. Specially I don't know how to set the environment varibles.

Do you consider including the automated procedure as an option to the kde3 Ubuntu/Kubuntu version?

Thanks!

Cheers,
Leo

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net> wrote:

I know KDE3.5 will apply itself properly to a clean system (i.e. one
without KDE installed already). I don't know if Gnome will.

My recommendation would be to install the Gnome CD, then install KDE3 on
top of that.

Tim

On Fri, October 30, 2009 5:36 am, Leonardo Rolla wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> If I'm doing a brand new installation, and I will use Gnome in the end,
> but
> with some KDE applications, what is best?
>
> Install the ISO for Kubuntu 9.10 + KDE 3.5 and then install Gnome Desktop
>
> or
>
> Install official Ubuntu release and follow
> http://apt.pearsoncomputing.net/install.html
>
> ?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> :-)
>

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