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I have a drive partitioned into three sections: two small ones and one large one. (Let's call them partitions A, B, C).
Partition A has Ubuntu 9.10 installed on it, with partition C mounted as /home. When I installed Ubuntu, I chose to encrypt my home folder.
Now, I'd like to isntall Kubuntu on partition B, and use the same home folder for both OSes.
How do I set up Kubuntu 9.10 to re-use the same folder, and give it the decryption key? (which I wrote down when I installed Ubuntu, of course).
Jono
Posted 2009-11-12T11:28:54.940
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why don't you just install the kubuntu desktop inside ubuntu? – phunehehe – 2009-11-12T11:58:42.540
Right, the Ubuntu docs site has good instructions on adding the Kubuntu to a default Ubuntu (=Kubuntu), and then turning it off at will (back to Gnome, but KDE apps are still available). You may not need a full second install. (Unless, of course, you do...) – ScoBe – 2009-11-12T12:05:48.843
So your question is a valid one but I agree with the above comments; Look here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingKDE
– pbr – 2009-11-12T22:33:19.097Mostly, because I don't like to mix up my usable OS with my experimentation. I've found that updates, dist-upgrades, and whatnot tend to break when I experiment with alternate desktop environemnts/distros. In the past, when I tried this, I got a whole mess. But your suggestion is encouraging. Maybe I'll try that again. – Jono – 2009-11-13T08:19:13.240
Oh, and one of the complications that just occurred to me, is that I can no longer access files in my /home folder from Windows... Didn't think of that when I encrypted the whole thing. After all, I couldn't even remember the last time I'd used Windows on this machine. – Jono – 2009-11-13T11:34:37.293
Okay, mixing Ubuntu and Kubuntu is a minor disaster.
I still have ALL the applications I had under Ubuntu, PLUS the new ones, and knetwork-manager and network-manager (gnome) are fighting for control. Wallpaper and mouse cursor are a nightmare, and the DEs don't share keyboard, language and locale settings.
Total mess. – Jono – 2009-11-23T08:33:27.373