How to switch from Kubuntu to Lubuntu

Question

How can someone switch from Kubuntu to Ubuntu? I need the OS to be more lighter than Kubuntu, so I need things to be unistalled from Kubuntu and the LXDE to be installed.

I am talking about 11.10 .

EDIT: I care alot if my system will be lightweight!

This PC is very old.(512 MB RAM)

Solution 1

It may be better to do those operations from a TTY not from a terminal, do CTRL+ALT+F1 and logon on a real TTY.

1. Optionnal : Uninstall Kubuntu desktop sudo apt-get purge kubuntu-desktop -> It's optionnal because you can have both environements installed but only one running.

2. Then remove it dependencies sudo apt-get autoremove --purge

3. After that, install the lubuntu desktop sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop

4. Then, reboot your machine.

Be carefull : this process might corrupt the system, do a backup before proceed.

Solution 2

The question is how to get back to Ubuntu from Kubuntu then install LXDE so then:

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purelxde

If you were wanting just Ubuntu then : Getting Back to a Pure Gnome on Ubuntu

Comments

[David Mcanulty]

Kubuntu to Lubuntu, not Ubuntu? That should be psychocats.net/ubuntu/purelxde