Install KDE 4.1 in Ubuntu/Kubuntu

Posted by Ruhaan Ahmed 30 June, 2008

KDE 4.1 was released to address many of the issues and complaints people had against KDE 4 and it completely lives upto its expectations.From better application integration to the many new desktop effects similar to compiz fusion are added in this version. Beware though KDE 4.1 is still in beta stage so I would suggest you back up all your data before installing it.

First you need to edit your sources list to add the KDE 4.1 repository, to do that simply enter this command into the terminal

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

this will open up Gedit and will list all your repositories at the end just add this line

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

This is the KDE 4.1 repository now save the file and exit gedit, Ubuntu now needs to read the packages from the newly added repository to do that simply enter this into the terminal

sudo apt-get update

Now to install KDE 4.1 if you are using Ubuntu execute this command

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-kde4-desktop

If you are using Kubuntu execute this command

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

And now just restart your computer then when asked to enter your user name and password in sessions select KDE 4 as the default desktop environment so that the next time you start you wont have to select KDE 4 again and again

To find out about the new features in KDE 4 just go here http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.1-beta1.php

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August 19, 2008

Hey ruhaan,

As asked in my email, how to uninstall this KDE and at login it shows login to KDE or GNOME in websession if i select GNOME upon loading it doesnt show shut down pc when clicked, so what is the wotrk out around that instead of logging out first and then shuttng down thru KDE interface

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Posted by Nabeel
August 20, 2008

@Nabeel -
@nabeel

enter this into a terminal

sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm

and when u get the option select GDM as the default manager

this will solve the problem og GNOME not being able to shut down

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Posted by Ruhaan Ahmed
August 22, 2008

thanks Ruhaan, in continuation of that, but wud that effect the KDE interface and if i wanted to uninstall KDE and go back to original ubuntu what wud be the procedure then?

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Posted by Nabeel
August 23, 2008

@Nabeel -

no nabeel it will not affect the kde interface the problem u will have though is the same u had in GNOME where u wont be able to turn off the computer from within KDE

To remove KDE completely enter this into a terminal kubuntu-kde4-desktop

sudo apt-get remove

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Posted by Ruhaan Ahmed
September 4, 2008

Can you plz give me a guide how to install linux with xp without scratch?

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Posted by Panwar
September 4, 2008

@Panwar - Panwar Ubuntu CD has a option called install from inside windows when you select this option it will install ubuntu along side windows inside your ntfs partition with a dual boot option using wubi and you can uninstall it just like a ordinary windows software

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Posted by Saad Ibrahim
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