Simple How to: Install KDE 4.x on Ubuntu 9.04

27 04 2009

After successfully installing Ubuntu on my PC, I want to install KDE 4 Desktop to it. KDE 4.2.2 (that will be installed) have a beautyfull appearance even a little slow than GNOME for an old machine.

Now, let’s to the point :p

To install entire KDE 4 environment, just type this on terminal:

$ sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

please be patient, the installation will be take a long time, depend on your connection speed

To Enter the KDE4 Desktop, just reboot/logout the system, change the session to KDE . . :

kde 4 desktop

Optional:

  1. If you might change the GDM to KDM as our default window login

just type this on terminal:

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm

and choose the KDM as a default:

  1. Because my KDE application are not “arranged” in the gnome menu, I very recommend, that we’ve install gnome-menu-extended to make the KDE application have bundled in new sub menu on gnome menu (download here)

gnome menu extended

Thanks, I hope this article to be useful, question and comment are welcome :)

~abz~

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10 responses

28 04 2009
Malik (17:26:08) :

Hi Dear,
Thanks, i used your instructions in the article and it was helpful

regards,
Malik

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30 04 2009
abz89 (08:14:05) :

huii . . thx u . . .i hope soo . .
:D

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8 05 2009
itachi (01:03:59) :

thx for the tips, mr abz, but….

KDE IS HEAVYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!

mending bikin tips xfce!

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11 05 2009
Helpme I = /\/()()B (12:19:50) :

So, I’ve tried this several times on several different machines and it seems the packages for KDE are not present in my repositories. I run this command and says ‘kubuntu-kde4-desktop’ cannot be found. Is there something I need to do beforehand to get this to work? Thanks for the help, Sam.

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12 05 2009
abz89 (11:05:16) :

@Helpme I = /\/()()B

sorry i’ve been missed before . .i’ve edited the tuts . .

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2 06 2009
Riccardo (09:52:01) :

Hi, i followed the tut and it worked, now i can choose kde or gnome at the beginning of the session. I also installed gnome extended menu but i still have no idea how to use it. I would like to have the kde with its good looking appearance but i would like to have in the menu some apps i have with gnome, especially network manager. For some reason, the gnome version of network manager works but the kde version doesn’t. So i need to have the gnome version of Network Manager on KDE. Hope this has a sense for you :-P

Thanks

Riccardo

Ps: Thanks for the tut!!! It helped a lot!!!

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25 06 2009
arun (02:20:04) :

thank you,,,that was really helpful

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14 07 2009
sniper (10:00:43) :

hey thanks for the tutorial

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2 10 2009
Dave (02:52:37) :

Hey,

thank you very much for the great tutorial. Installing KDE now. Cheers!

-Dave

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30 10 2009
drfreud (16:01:04) :

Great… thanks… doing right now!

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