How to install KDE 4.1 on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) -- Ubuntu Geek

How to install KDE 4.1 on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)

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KDE has reached version 4.1.2. The new series includes updates to several of KDE’s core components, notably a port to Qt 4. It contains a new multimedia API, called Phonon, a device integration framework called Solid and a new style guide and default icon set called Oxygen. It also includes the new desktop and panel user interface tool, called Plasma, which supports desktop widgets, replacing SuperKaramba and similar to Apple’s Dashboard widgets. The port to Qt 4 will facilitate support for non-X11-based platforms, including Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. One of the overall goals of KDE 4 is to be more easily portable to different operating systems.

Install KDE 4.1 on Ubuntu 8.10

First you need to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

add the following line

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu intrepid main

save and exit the file

Update the source list using the following command

sudo aptitude update

Install KDE4 desktop Environment using the following command

sudo aptitude install kubuntu-kde4-desktop

Enter your password and press Y when asked if you want to continue.

Configure kdm, KDE’s graphical login manager screen. Press Enter.

Here you need to select which desktop enviroment you want to use as default on for Gnome select gdm and for KDE select kdm select ok and press enter

This will install all the required packages for KDE4

Running KDE Session

After finishing installation you need to logout from your current session.In login window click on Options—> Select Session…

Select KDE click on Change Session

Select your option here you want to run just for this session or default Desktop Environment

KDE 4.1 is loading

KDE 4.1 Desktop

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14 Responses to “How to install KDE 4.1 on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)”

Gon Says:
November 1st, 2008 at 12:57 am
Why you add additional repository?
KDE 4.1 is in default Ubuntu Intrepid repository.

it is as simple as to only do:
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-kde4-desktop

Or installing Kubuntu from the beginning.
Corey Says:
November 2nd, 2008 at 6:48 pm
This method does not allow for an easy uninstall as well when switching back to gnome it completely broke it, the end result for me was backing up and formatting and reinstall.
Simon Says:
November 4th, 2008 at 11:34 am
So, please could we have an idiots’ guide to uninstalling KDE, after we’ve tried it and preferred Gnome?
alko Says:
November 4th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
I thought ubuntu is easy, so I gave it a try yesterday. After trying to install kde4 via graphical installers ‘add/remove programs’ or synaptic, it presented me with this funny message about my platform not being supported - i386 - I have a core 2 Duo, so WTF? Then I followed this tutorial and a few minutes later I had KDE4 installed - great. I’m not sure if kubuntu (when installed from scratch) looks any different comapred to what I achieved, but I certainly didn’t like it. It was far from smooth (nvidia drivers enabled), some problems with redrawing icons in ’systray’ (just like in the screenshot above)… overall feeling of immaturity So I switched back to Gnome and .. surprise, surprise.. some KDE applets started to appear after logon in Gnome as well. I’m sure having KDE’s KnetworkManager next to it’s Gnome’s siblign may seem cool to some, but definitely not to me!
I would have imagined the two desktop environments better isolated from each other…
jimbo Says:
November 5th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
sudo apt-get remove kde*

thats all you need to do to get rid of kde and all its packages.
aburafiq Says:
November 12th, 2008 at 3:43 am
since the above guide was using aptitude

then simply “sudo aptitude purge kubuntu-kde4-desktop” will remove altogether the packages installed during the above session.
Greg Says:
November 20th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
I really like the look and feel of KDE better. When I followed the directions above I successfully installed KDE and was able to log into it. However, when I did the screen kept doing a slow blinking. It wasn’t affecting any of the applications but it was not usable because of it. I guess I’ll have to try the uninstall instructions now…
moto Says:
December 6th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
nice guide tnx
Tadas Says:
December 7th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
wery goog guide thanks (:
ovi Says:
December 8th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
I have got some toubleshoot with uninstall this KDE… I wrote “sudo apt-get remove kde” in my terminal, but it wrote this:

dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run ‘dpkg –configure -a’ to correct the problem.

I am new user of Linux Ubuntu 8.10 (and I am Slovak). Can you help me?
admin Says:
December 8th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
@ovi

try to run the following command from your terminal

sudo dpkg –configure -a
ovi Says:
December 8th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Thank you, but I google some information and I find out solution. I uninstall KDE (maybe successfuly), but there was another problem. I think, that I solved it, too.
ovi Says:
December 10th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
I completelly uninstalled KDE (Kubuntu) from my Ubuntu 8.10 (“sudo apt-get remove kde*”). But when the system is loading, splash look like KUBUNTU (http://danielsantos.org/images/2007/06/kubuntu_splash.jpg) no UBUNTU (http://news.softpedia.com/images/reviews/large/installfeistyfawn-large_003.png). What may be the problem? How can I edit GRUB?
joshg Says:
January 4th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
You have to change usplash theme. There’s a guide in ubuntu wiki.