In OpenSUSE use links "One Click Install" available on its website in order to install the latest version of the desktop with a simple mouse click. If you have already installed an earlier version of KDE, Raul Moratalla has prepared in his personal blog a simple, visual guide to how to upgrade easily.

Users of Fedora repository is available kde-redhat, which can be added to the list of the system. It is not an official repository, so you can give any serious collisions between packages during the installation. In that case, you have to manually remove each one to a package that cause conflicts to continue with the installation.

Ubuntu has already incorporated the latest version of the environment in the next version of its repositories 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope." Users of the current version 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" who want to try KDE 4.2 can follow the guide published on the website of Kubuntu. Basically, it is necessary to add the following line to the list of repositories available:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-experimental/ubuntu intrepid main

And then we run the following command:
$ gpg —keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com —recv-keys 493B3065 && gpg —export -a 493B3065 | sudo apt-key add –

Then they can install the package kubuntu-desktop with the latest version of KDE. If have already installed the previous version of KDE, you should first uninstall the koffice-data-kde4In OpenSUSE use links "One Click Install" available on its website in order to install the latest version of the desktop with a simple mouse click. If you have already installed an earlier version of KDE, Raul Moratalla has prepared in his personal blog a simple, visual guide to how to upgrade easily.

Users of Fedora repository is available kde-redhat, which can be added to the list of the system. It is not an official repository, so you can give any serious collisions between packages during the installation. In that case, you have to manually remove each one to a package that cause conflicts to continue with the installation.

Ubuntu has already incorporated the latest version of the environment in the next version of its repositories 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope." Users of the current version 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" who want to try KDE 4.2 can follow the guide published on the website of Kubuntu. Basically, it is necessary to add the following line to the list of repositories available:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-experimental/ubuntu intrepid main

And then we run the following command:
$ gpg —keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com —recv-keys 493B3065 && gpg —export -a 493B3065 | sudo apt-key add –

Then they can install the package kubuntu-desktop with the latest version of KDE. If have already installed the previous version of KDE, you should first uninstall the koffice-data-kde4

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