Sunday, September 6, 2009

Howto Install Kde 4.3.1 In Ubuntu Jaunty

Howto Install Kde 4.3.1 In Ubuntu Jaunty: "kde430-desktop

Kde 4.3.1 is released with a couple improvements and bug fixes.

Some notable changes from complete changelog :

*KDE 4.3 is now also available in Croatia.

*A crash when editing toolbar setup has been fixed.

*Support for transferring files through SSH using KIO::Fish has been fixed.

*A number of bugs in KWin, KDE's window and compositing manager has been fixed.

*A large number of bugs in KMail, KDE's email client are now gone.

Installing KDE 4.3.1 in Ubuntu Jaunty:

Open your sources.list:

$gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

and add the following repository at the end of the file. Save the file when you are done:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu jaunty main

Add GPG keys:

$gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 2836CB0A8AC93F7A

$gpg --export --armor 2836CB0A8AC93F7A | sudo apt-key add -

Now you can update your list and do a dist-upgrade to upgrade to KDE 4.3.1 :

$sudo apt-get update

$sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

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