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


6 Responses to “Howto install KDE4 on a Ubuntu 8.10 (or 8.04)”

  1. # Roberton 19 Apr 2008 at 6:42 pm

    Or you could use Kubuntu?

  2. # adminon 19 Apr 2008 at 10:11 pm

    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

  3. # Hynkleon 28 Apr 2008 at 7:08 pm

    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.

  4. # ivkeon 30 Apr 2008 at 12:55 am

    - 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 ?

  5. # adminon 30 Apr 2008 at 12:57 am

    I’m not totally sure, in fact running both give me some errors, but perhaps it’s my config.

  6. # ivkeon 30 Apr 2008 at 5:01 pm

    - Oki…tnx! ;) I`LL TRY.. :)

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