How to replace Windows with Kubuntu - part II
Posted in How To's by Shafkat Shahzad, M.Sc - Senior Technical Content Manager on October 17th, 2009 Welcome to the tutorial guide. The tutorial guide will provide a user with guidance and instructions on how to replace Windows with Kubuntu 9.04 by setting up a Kubuntu 9.04 desktop.
During the part I of the tutorial guide, we successfully installed the base system.
Before we progress any further, it is good to check if there are any updates available for the system. This can be done by starting the KPackageKit package manager and for that we will go to:
- System
- Software Management
- now, we will click on Software Updates.
- by clicking on Softwarv updates, a list of the available will be displayed.
- If you would like to install them, then simply click on the apply all available updates
- You have to type in your password:
- The updates will be downloaded and installed
- now, you can simply click on OK to leave KPackageKit
- The system is now up-to-date.
If you would like to see which of the applications are installed then on the screen you will find ([x] and [] marks. ([x] means that an application that is already installed, where [ ] is an application that is missing:
Graphics application
[ ] The GIMP
[ ] F-Spot
[ ] Picasa
Internet applicatoion
[ ] Firefox
[ ] Opera
[ ] Flash Player
[ ] FileZilla
[ ] Thunderbird
[ ] Evolution
[ ] aMule
[x] KTorrent
[ ] Azureus/Vuze
[x] Kopete
[ ] Skype
[ ] Google Earth
[x] Quassel IRC
Office applicaiton
[x] OpenOffice Writer
[x] OpenOffice Calc
[ ] Adobe Reader
[ ] GnuCash
[ ] Scribus
Sound & Video
[x] Amarok
[ ] Audacity
[ ] Banshee
[ ] MPlayer
[ ] Rhythmbox Music Player
[ ] gtkPod
[ ] XMMS
[ ] dvd::rip
[ ] Kino
[ ] Sound Juicer CD Extractor
[ ] VLC Media Player
[ ] Helix Player
[ ] Totem
[ ] Xine
[ ] Brasero
[x] K3B
[ ] Multimedia-Codecs
Programming application
[ ] KompoZer
[ ] Bluefish
[ ] Quanta Plus
Other applications
[ ] VirtualBox
[ ] TrueType fonts
[ ] Java
[x] Read/Write support for NTFS partitions
So some applications are already on the system. NTFS read-/write support is enabled by default on Kubuntu 9.04.
If you followed the guidance as provided in this tutorial guide then you will have successfully checked various applications that are installed on the system
