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I tried sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop.
It turned out like this:

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have

requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable

distribution that some required packages have not yet been created

or been moved out of Incoming.

The following information may help to resolve the situation:



The following packages have unmet dependencies:

 xubuntu-desktop : Depends: gtk2-engines-pixbuf but it is not going to be installed

                   Recommends: abiword but it is not going to be installed

                   Recommends: abiword-plugin-grammar but it is not going to be installed

                   Recommends: abiword-plugin-mathview but it is not going to be installed

                   Recommends: brltty-x11 but it is not going to be installed

                   Recommends: gimp but it is not going to be installed

                   Recommends: gthumb but it is not going to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Anyone knows what this means and how to fix it ?

• PS: If I have installed Xubuntu-desktop, how can I remove the Unity?


• Thank you.

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Seems like you had a broken update or software install so either your apt-cache is messed up or your dpkg isn't getting a lock. First try

sudo dpkg --configure -a

Then:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get autoclean

sudo apt-get clean

sudo apt-get autoremove

sudo dpkg --remove -force --force-remove-reinstreq broken-packagename

Optionally to remove unity:

sudo apt-get purge ubuntu-default-settings



sudo apt-get purge ubuntu-desktop



sudo apt-get autoremove

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Have you tried installing the base xfce desktop package called "xfce4"? Installing that will install the base xfce desktop, without all of the extra packages used by Xubuntu (eg, gnome-dependencies, xubuntu artwork, etc). This way you wouldn't have more than one text editor, update manager, cd burner, audio player, etc (because thay are all required by Xubuntu).

After installing XUbuntu , you can remove Unity by

sudo apt-get autoremove --purge unity unity-common unity-services unity-lens-* unity-scope-* unity-webapps-* gnome-control-center-unity hud libunity-core-6* libunity-misc4 libunity-webapps* appmenu-gtk appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-qt* overlay-scrollbar* activity-log-manager-control-center firefox-globalmenu thunderbird-globalmenu libufe-xidgetter0 xul-ext-unity xul-ext-webaccounts webaccounts-extension-common xul-ext-websites-integration gnome-control-center gnome-session