- the new Kontact suite brings next generation groupware to desktop and mobile
- Kontact receives a major architectural boost, using the capabilities of the new scalable Akonadi groupware framework to build interconnected PIM-related applications
- software updates to KDE Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform
To install the latest KDE version in Kubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, open a terminal and type in the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
If you don’t have Kubuntu installed, install it using:
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
If you have Ubuntu but want to try KDE with only a core set of applications like KDE Plasma, file manager, web browser, text editor, then install the kde-plasma-desktop package:
sudo apt-get install kde-plasma-desktop
To revert to the default KDE packages from the repositories, install the ppa-purge binary and run it like this:
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge sudo ppa-purge kubuntu-ppa
The ppa-purge command will comment your sources lines inside the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kubuntu-ppa-ppa-natty.list file, and then replace the packages which were installed from the PPA with the ones in the default repositories.
del says: Hi,
The folowing line:
sudo apt-get update
should be AFTER the
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
It should looks like —>
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
You’re right, that’s a mistake, thanks for spotting it. I will change it right away.
del says: Then it probably would be better if the
“sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports”
line would be
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/ppa
Which you can see if you’ll follow “Kubuntu Updates PPA” link in the beggining of this article. :)
So:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/ppa
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade
