KDE 4.0 stable is now available for Linux. This new release of KDE 4 includes a whole lot of new improvements like a whole new desktop shell Plasma, better look and feel with Oxygen artwork, hardware acceleration in KWin, a new document file viewer Okular, improved KDE applications and lot more.
Here is how you can install KDE 4 on your existing Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon install.
- First remove any previous KDE 4 packages you have installed. Fire up a terminal window and type sudo apt-get remove kdelibs5 kde4base-data kde4libs-data
- Then open up your sources list with /etc/apt/sources.list
- At the end of the file add deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu gutsy main
- Now run apt-get update
- Next to install KDE4 type in terminal apt-get install kde4-core
- You will get a warning that the packages are not authenticated. Hit Y for that warning.
- Log out and then you will be able to run a full session by selecting “KDE 4″ from your login manager.
Thats it. I am installing KDE 4 now on my Gutsy install.
Will post I have posted some screenshots of KDE 4 when its over.
2 comments ↓
Is it really stable? If so, is it available for Linspire 6?
Hmm… It is not as stable as KDE 3.5. You will have to wait for later bug fix releases (KDE 4.1) to be more stable.
About Linspire, not much idea. I don’t use it.
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