Starting KDE in EeePC


	Starting KDE in EeePC

ottolin

11-27-2007 6:05 AM

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ottolin says:

Otto: actually just doing the following steps will enable you to switch to advance mode.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y --force-yes kicker ksmserver

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