Cinnamon to KDE - SOLVED

[klwilcoxon]

I installed Mageia 4 with the Cinnamon desktop because of capacity issues. I have upgraded and now want to switch to using KDE plasma. Do I need to reinstall to make the switch?

Thanks

[Ken-Bergen]

You can have as many desktop environments installed as disk space permits and switch between them.

Installing task-kde4 then selecting it at the login prompt should be all that is needed.

[doktor5000]

To switch between desktop environments once installed, you may want to look at https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Display_Mana ... _Selection

[doktor5000]

Thanks Gents -

All went well except:

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While some packages may have been installed, there were failures.
Some requested packages cannot be installed:
kipi-plugins-expoblending-3.5.0-3.mga4.x86_64 (due to unsatisfied hugin)
kipi-plugins-panorama-3.5.0-3.mga4.x86_64 (due to unsatisfied hugin)


Does this matter?

[doktor5000]

Only if you want to use the kipi plugins - http://userbase.kde.org/KIPI
Although this indicates that the mirror you're using is not in sync or misses some packages.

Please show the output of

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urpmq --list-media active

[klwilcoxon]

Here it is:

Core Release
Nonfree release

[doktor5000]

You want to remove them and add a complete set of repositories: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Software_man ... ia_sources