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KDE 4.3 RC 1 Available

webmaster — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:35:44 +0100

The release candidate is out from KDE for the upcoming 4.3.

Users of the Karmic development release 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

Note that these packages have a bug which causes X to die during the upgrade. The upgrade will continue and you can reboot when it is done.

First KOffice Update, 2.0.1

webmaster — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:54:13 +0100

KOffice 2 has received its first update in KOffice 2.0.1. Packages are available for our development Karmic version by installing koffice-kde4. Users of the stable 9.04 can install it from our Kubuntu backports archive.

Karmic Alpha 2 Released

webmaster — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:13:55 +0100

The second alpha of our development version has been released for testing.

KDE 4.3 Beta 2

webmaster — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:10:40 +0100

A second beta is out from KDE for the upcoming 4.3.

Users of the Karmic development release 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

Amarok 2.1 Rocks the World

webmaster — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:57:13 +0100

Music playing application Amarok has rocked the world with their 2.1 release.

Packages are available for Kubuntu. Users of the Karmic development release can upgrade their Amarok 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

KDE 4.2.4 Updates for Kubuntu 9.04

webmaster — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:37:32 +0100

A new bugfix KDE release is available to update Kubuntu 9.04.

Add this repository and do a full upgrade:

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

KOffice 2 Launched

webmaster — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:54:52 +0100

KOffice 2 has been released and packages are available for Kubuntu.

Users of our development release, Karmic, can install koffice-kde4.

If you are using the current 9.04 release add the backports Unsupported updates repository and install koffice-kde4.

KDE 4.3 Beta 1 now available

webmaster — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:07:02 +0100

KDE 4.3 Beta 1 is now available in the Kubuntu Karmic repositories.

First Karmic Alpha Available

webmaster — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:09:03 +0100

The first alpha CD for our next release is now available. This is at a very early stage of development so is advised for brave testers only. See the overview from Ubuntu, the announcement or just go straight to the CD download.

KDE 4.2.3 Update for Kubuntu 9.04

webmaster — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:34:52 +0100

KDE 4.2.3 has been released and packages are available for Kubuntu 9.04.

To install it add this line to your software sources.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/ppa/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 saving the PUBLIC KEY BLOCK available from this page to a file and importing it from the authentication tab in KPackageKit's software sources window.

Then refresh and do a full upgrade.