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   Paul Brewer wrote:   
   > On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:21:18 -0700, Michael Fierro wrote:   
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   >> On Tuesday 23 January 2007 08:33 am, Paul-B ranted on thusly:    
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   >>> Thanks for your help. I'll give it a go... I don't mind working with   
   >>> the console/konsole to tweak Ubuntu, just spent 2 hours doing just that   
   >>> to get it to mount my NTFS drives, but it does eat up a lot of my time!   
   >> Cool. Then once you get Universe enabled for apt, simply do:   
   >>   
   >> apt-get install xubuntu-desktop   
   >>   
   >> That'll install XFCE along with a bunch of support utilities for it. You'll   
   >> then basically have all of Xubuntu installed on your system, and from the   
   >> login screen, you can choose "XFCE" for the Session to log in to.   
   >>   
   >> More info on XFCE and its yumminess can be found at the project website   
   >> (http://xfce.org). I also tend to write about it a lot on my blog   
   >> (http://apt-get.biffster.org/index.php?s=xfce).    
   >>   
   > Thanks, Michael. I tried that but all I got was the following message:   
   >    
   > paul@Main:~$ apt-get install xubuntu-desktop   
   > E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)   
   > E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you   
   root?   
   > paul@Main:~$    
   >    
   >    
   > Any help appreciated   
   >    
      
   you need the command sudo in front of apt-get so it does it as root    
   user/supervisor so...   
      
   sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop   
      
   then type your password   
      
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