KDE 3.5.8 Released with Kubuntu Packages

KDE 3.5.8 has been released.

Packages are available in Kubuntu Gutsy, due to be released as Kubuntu 7.10 on Thursday 18th October. A release candidate is available now.

Base packages are also available for Kubuntu 7.04 (Feisty), with more coming soon.

You can download the KDE packages from any of these sources (add to /etc/apt/sources.list):

These packages have been digitally signed using Jonathan Riddell's key. A copy of the key is also kept on people.ubuntu.com for verification.

These packages are not well supported. Security and other updates may not be applied promptly.

Kubuntu 7.04 (Feisty)

Mirrors may still be updating.

• deb http://kubuntu.org/packages/kde-358 feisty main
• deb ftp://bolugftp.uni-bonn.de/pub/kde/stable/3.5.8/kubuntu feisty main
• deb http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.5.8/kubuntu feisty main
• deb http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/software/kde/stable/3.5.8/kubuntu feisty main
• Other mirrors listed at download.kde.org

These packages are available for i386 and AMD64.

How to Use

• Save the key file to your local disk
• Launch Adept Manager from K-Menu->System
• Choose from the menu Adept->Manage Repositories
• Click the Authentication tab
• Click Import Key File... and select the file you saved above
• Click the Third Party Software tab
• Add one of the deb lines above
• Close and click Reload
• From the Adept toolbar click Full Upgrade then Apply Changes
• Log out of KDE and back in again once the new version is installed

The above assumes you have software-properties-kde installed (it will be removed if you install Feisty's KDE 4 packages). If you do not have it installed, you will need to add the authentication key on the command line with sudo apt-key add [file].