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

By: saurabh

saurabh — Sun, 03 May 2009 07:19:55 +0000

i tried installing but it shows certain conflicts when i enter this oon the terminal

sudo aptitude install kubuntu-kde4-desktop

please help me out.

By: Mik Scheper

Mik Scheper — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:44:13 +0000

I happened to run into somebody from KDE QA last night, and she told me that just ’sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop’ would do the trick.

Once I took ‘deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu intrepid main’ back out of /etc/apt/sources.list, it worked: I’m running KDE 4.1 right now.

I’m not sure if the info in this article is out of date or if it’s trying to achieve something more than just installing KDE 4.1 on Intrepid, but to me it doesn’t look like messing with the sources list is necessary. I hope this helps somebody.

By: Mik Scheper

Mik Scheper — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:42:01 +0000

I’ve tried this and I’m getting dependency problems; endless ‘No solution found within the allotted time. Try harder?’ messages. I also tried using apt-get, with more straightforward results: ‘Broken packages’. I’ve used *nix via shell prompts for decades but I’m still fairly new to Ubuntu, so please forgive me if this is a newb question.

By: filip

filip — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:15:12 +0000

For those new to Linux (like myself) reading this article: do not be discouraged by troubles some people here had. Go ahead and try it on yourself!

Here is what you can do if you are affraid of playing with your Linux dedicated box: get a free VMware player (or other virtual machine of your choice) and a linux image for VMware (look for one at http://vmplanet.net or http://www.tuxdistro.com or somewhere else) and follow the steps described here. It worked for me without any glitches (on my laptop with 64-bit Vista), but if it did not, you can always start afresh with your saved image.

By: Jon Loveless

Jon Loveless — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:45:01 +0000

I want to add KDE to my Intrepid install. I read somewhere that if you add KDE to an Ubuntu installation that you will run into issues when you do your next update, as with 8.10 to 9.04, for example. Is this the case, and how do you do such an upgrade to get both KDE and Gnome updated at the same time.

Many thanks.

By: Basil Fitze

Basil Fitze — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:20:49 +0000

Great to see people still like either, I like choice. I use Ubuntu 8.10 with Ubuntu and virtualize OpenSUSE 11.1 with KDE, I actually can say I prefer Gnome.

By: fatbloke

fatbloke — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:51:46 +0000

the guides looking good, TVM.

Personally I’m a kde person and am only running this because of problems with the knetwork manager and static IP’s (and a couple of other issues that aren’t relevant).

I have no idea why I got the “can’t install kde4 on your system” message when trying to use the add/remove facility and as far as I can tell KDE4 doesn’t seem to be in the Ubuntu repository by default, hence having to install it “your way”.

As long as I can get it installed, I’ll be happy - KDE seems (well used to seem when it was kde 3.5.X) straight forward, more so than gnome IMO - but having to learn the differences between kde 3.x.x and kde 4.x.x isn’t too much of an issue.

Again, TVM for the guide. Much appreciated.

By: Cris

Cris — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:36:41 +0000

Heya,

I am really new to Linux and I really got intrigued by the new KDE so I want to try it. I am truly grateful for this step by step process and I noticed that loading applications is way faster in KDE than in GNOME. However, I have a problem after installing, the additional widgets included in the original Kubuntu ISO Install is not present such as the notes widget and the folder widget. Is there a way to install them manually in the plasma desktop? (That is obvious based on the final result of this tutorial)

I wish to have a desktop that looks like this: http://tombuntu.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/kde41desktop.jpg or this: http://www.kubuntu.org/~jriddell/8.10-upgrade/upgrade3-wee.png

FYI: I have a 500 GB hd filled with 50GB of music and 300Gb of images (photography escapades) therefore formatting for me is not an option for I have no place to have back-up. It is costly for me to buy a new hd as I don’t have the budget.

Thanks in advance.

-Cris

By: david

david — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:56:30 +0000

Thanks this worked a treat. Where did you find the nice mountain desktop image???

By: Tanya

Tanya — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:40:47 +0000

Thx for a great step-by-step guide for installing KDE. I’ve only been an Ubuntu-fan for about 2 months now and absolutely love every aspect of it. And now with KDE, I’ve fallen in love all over again (with Ubuntu, naturally).

By: joshg

joshg — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:01:16 +0000

You have to change usplash theme. There’s a guide in ubuntu wiki.

By: ovi

ovi — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:25:29 +0000

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?

By: ovi

ovi — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:18:32 +0000

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.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:09:08 +0000

@ovi

try to run the following command from your terminal

sudo dpkg –configure -a

By: ovi

ovi — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:01:42 +0000

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?

By: Tadas

Tadas — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:07:50 +0000

wery goog guide thanks (:

By: moto

moto — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:54:29 +0000

nice guide tnx

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:47:12 +0000

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…

By: aburafiq

aburafiq — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:43:47 +0000

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.

By: jimbo

jimbo — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:29:38 +0000

sudo apt-get remove kde*

thats all you need to do to get rid of kde and all its packages.