Howto install KDE4 on a Ubuntu 8.10 (or 8.04)
Today, it’s the time to switch to the next Ubuntu version. One interesting stuff in the latest distro, is the KDE4, but by default you still get a 3.5.9 revision..
Here a little tips to switch easily:
First uninstall the previous version
sudo apt-get remove --purge kdebase-bin-kde3 sudo apt-get autoremove --purge
Install KDE4
sudo apt-get install kde4
As you can see, this is not really hard. The trick is to remove the old version cleanly.
Enjoy ?
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admin April 19th, 2008
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Or you could use Kubuntu?
Yes of course, but I’m mainstream guy you know :) ..
To be clear, why bothering with (K|X)Ubuntu when you can have quite the same with a single APT ?
Bye
This help me a lot I am still new to Linux so finding a easy n clean way to upgrade KDE was a big Help thank you.
- But, can I still keep kde 3.5.9 and install kde 4 ? So I can switch between kde 3.5.9 and 4.0.3 ?
I’m not totally sure, in fact running both give me some errors, but perhaps it’s my config.
- Oki…tnx! ;) I`LL TRY.. :)