InstallingKDE

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InstallingKDE

KDE 3.4 is now in Hoary's main repository; for Warty, only KDE 3.2 is available and it is in the Universe repository. Some parts of KDE (currently eg kdeedu) remain in the universe repository.

How to Install

Under WartyWarthog

As mentioned above, only KDE 3.2 is available in Warty. To install it, you will need to enable the Universe repository and install kde-core. Alternatively, you might want to consider upgrading to HoaryHedgehog where KDE 3.4 Official is available. Hoary official is now out, so it is recommended that you upgrade to the latest version of Ubuntu. For a guide on upgrading to Hoary from Warty, see the Wiki GuideToHoary.

Under HoaryHedgehog

There are different packages to be installed to acquire Kubuntu from an Ubuntu installation depending on which packages you want. Below are the three possible choices, or "routes", to go down; the packages below are metapackages -- they depend upon other, "real", packages, and with their installation they pull them in. For any of the below packages, to install from apt simply enter "sudo apt-get install <packagename>" in the command line, or you can use Synaptic to find and install the given package. The options are as follows:

(i) 'kubuntu-desktop' -- This is the recommended metapackage to install; the full Kubuntu installation, with all the Kubuntu recommended packages. This includes OpenOffice, Konversation, amaroK, K3B, and others.

(ii) 'kde' -- This will install the following KDE packages: kde-amusements, kdeaccessibility, kdeaddons, kdeadmin, kdeartwork, kdegraphics, kdemultimedia, kdenetwork, kdepim, kdesdk, kdeutils, kdewebdev, kdevelop3 and the kde-core metapackage (see details below).

(iii) 'kde-core' --- This will install the core -- the bare-minimum required-- of KDE. That is, kdebase, kdelibs, arts and fontconfig.

If you choose to not install kubuntu-desktop, then you can still get all the Kubuntu-specific tweaks by installing the 'kubuntu-default-settings' package.

Also, here are a few other recommended packages if you do not choose to go down the first route:

  • kdm -- The KDE Display Manager, with the original Kubuntu theme.
  • amaroK -- A full featured media player for KDE.
  • kynaptic -- A KDE package manager; similar to -- but not as advanced as -- Synaptic. Another KDE Graphical Package Manager is KPackage, which is currently more advanced.
  • Konversation -- An IRC Client for KDE.

Other Notes

sudo. Sudo support has been added to KDE 3.4. You need to enter your user password (currently it says it wants the root password but it actually wants your user password).

MP3. For playing MP3s you need the akode-mpeg package (from the Universe repository), then killall artsd to make the sound server restart.

Help

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