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James Kilty wrote:
> I have managed to copy the email files over so that's one less urgent
> problem.
>
are you upgrading from kubuntu to kubuntu, or ubuntu to kubuntu?
Evolution is a gnome app so it won't be part of the system by default.
You won't have much joy installing a kde desktop over a gnome one. Guess
you'd need to save all the .xxxx directories in your home directory, do
a complete install of kubuntu and then put the .xxxx directories back,
see what works and/or import things like email to thunderbird/kmail or
whatever. You may be able to download and install evolution from the
repositories for kubuntu, but I'm not sure about that.
The dual boot problem is probably because the install hasn't gotten as
far as intsalling the bootloader, grub or whatever. A successful install
should detect windows and sort this out.
If you are doing ubuntu to ubuntu or kubuntu to kubuntu I would still
recomend saving everything in /home, doing an install and then putting
/home stuff back. If you use a live disc you should find you old system
under /mnt as /mnt/sdaN or similar. You'll probably need to mount it by
hand from the command line ("mount /mnt/sda6" kind of thing). A portable
hard drive is useful if you have one to hand.
Simon
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