Packages for the final release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.4 are available. Users of the Lucid development release can upgrade to the newest packages. Users of our stable 9.10 release can install it from the Kubuntu Backports PPA. If you have used Virtuoso 5.0.12 you should consider installing the "virtuosoconverter" package which will convert your existing Virtuoso data to the new format.

KDE SC 4.3.5 is now in karmic-backports. The Backports repository is not enabled by default, so you may need to enable it in KPackageKit. Instructions for this are found on the help wiki. To manually enable it, edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and uncomment the line deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-backports main restricted universe multiverse. When upgrading from 4.3.2 to 4.3.4, some package recommendations have changed, so using dist-upgrade (or full-upgrade in aptitude) may be needed.

Packages for the first release candidate of the KDE Software Compilation 4.4 are available.

Users of the Lucid development release are advised not to upgrade yet, as the packages are only half-built due to a breakage of the underlying graphics stack. The Ubuntu Xorg team is working fervently to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

Users of our stable 9.10 release can install it from the Kubuntu Beta PPA.

KDE SC 4.3.4 is now in karmic-backports and will be removed from the PPA shortly. Even if you have the PPA packages, please upgrade to the versions in karmic-backports. There are security fixes included in karmic-backports that were not in the PPA packages. The Backports repository is not enabled by default, so you may need to enable it in KPackageKit. Instructions for this are found here. To manually enable it, edit your /etc/apt/sources/list and uncomment the line

The second beta of KDE SC 4.4 has packages available in our Beta PPA. There are also betas of Amarok and KDevelop available.

Users of our latest development release, Lucid, can upgrade to the latest packages.

Users of our stable 9.10 release can install it from the Kubuntu Beta PPA.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/beta/ubuntu karmic main

Then do sudo apt-get update then sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop.

The first beta of KDE SC 4.4 has packages available in our Beta PPA.

Users of our latest development release, Lucid, can upgrade to the latest packages.

Users of our stable 9.10 release can install it from the Kubuntu Beta PPA.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/beta/ubuntu karmic main

Then do sudo apt-get update then sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop.

Kubuntu software packagers are hard at work preparing KDE Software Compilation 4.4 beta 1 packages for testing. Keep checking back for more updates.

KDE SC 4.3.4 has been released.

Users of our new 9.10 release can install it from the Kubuntu Updates PPA.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

It is strongly recommended that you verify the integrity of these packages by installing the archive's GPG key. You may do this by following the instructions on this page.

Thanks to Alessandro Ghersi for his incredible work on this release.

KDE 4.3.3 has been released.

Users of our new 9.10 release can install it from the Kubuntu Updates PPA.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

It is strongly recommended that you verify the integrity of these packages by installing the archive's GPG key. You may do this by following the instructions on this page.

The latest KDE update, 4.3.2 is now available.

Users of our latest development release, Karmic, can upgrade to the latest packages.

Users of our stable 9.04 release can install it from the Kubuntu Backports PPA.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu jaunty main

It is strongly recommended that you verify the integrity of these packages by installing the archive's GPG key. You may do this by following the instructions on this page.