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How To Remove A Non-Empty Directory in Ubuntu

It’s really very simple.
Bring up a terminal window.
At the command prompt type sudo rm -r <directory-name>
So, if you wanted to remove a directory called ’spare’ that was in the directory ‘etc’ which is itself off the home directory you would simply type without the quotes ’sudo rm -r /etc/spare’
The system will prompt you for your [...]

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KDE 4

I installed KDE 4.0 on my Ubuntu 7.10 system.
First you need to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file to get the correct files.
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
add the following line
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu gutsy main
Save and exit the file
Update the source list using the following command
sudo aptitude update
Then you need to remove any exiting kde4 using the following command
sudo aptitude remove [...]

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