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I want to install a lighter flavor of Ubuntu, say KDE. But I am worried about the softwares and other packages will work or not on that flavor and also that it can be installed with the most convenient way of installing softwares which is apt-get command. I generally use ubuntu to build AOSP ROMS and therefore I don't want an OS which is "resource hungry" like the Unity-Desktop-Environment. Generally what I want are these softwares to be installed and work flawlessly:

git-core gnupg flex bison gperf build-essential \
  zip curl zlib1g-dev gcc-multilib g++-multilib libc6-dev-i386 \
  lib32ncurses5-dev x11proto-core-dev libx11-dev lib32z-dev ccache \
  libgl1-mesa-dev libxml2-utils xsltproc unzip
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    KDE is not lighter than Ubuntu. – Rinzwind Jun 06 '17 at 18:53
  • Really??But I read somewhere (perhaps quora) that KDE should be used in a computer having low resources like 2gb ram, etc.. Do that do not mean that it is lighter than Ubuntu?? – Shivam Jha Jun 07 '17 at 19:09
  • Well, then should I go for Lubuntu then?? – Shivam Jha Jun 07 '17 at 19:20
  • That's a personal opinion ;-) Oh I just found this: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5l39tz/linux_distros_ram_consumption_comparison_updated/ The RAM shown there is not just the DE. I use Budgie myself but have RAM to spare ;-) – Rinzwind Jun 07 '17 at 19:23
  • and here a bare footprint (so with nothing running): https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/3j7i0t/is_kde_really_as_resource_heavy_as_everyone_says/ – Rinzwind Jun 07 '17 at 19:35
  • Xubuntu and Lubuntu would be my first choices for a lighter Ubuntu-based DE. – Joe P Jun 09 '17 at 00:01

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The main differences between Ubuntu and Kubuntu are the default installed packages, sponsors and the environments, which means any package that can be installed in Ubuntu it can also be installed in Kubuntu. And yes, Kubuntu and all other ubuntu like ditros use apt as their packaged manager since there all Debian derivatives.

For More details see What is the difference between Ubuntu and its derivatives? And https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MetaPackages

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