KDE 4 First Development Snapshot

The first development snapshot of KDE 4, codenamed Krash, has been released and packages are available for Kubuntu Edgy. These are intended for developers only.

They install to /usr/lib/kde4 and can be installed alongside your existing KDE 3.

Kubuntu Edgy

• deb http://kubuntu.org/packages/kde4-3.80.1/ ./

These packages are available for i386.

Instructions:

• Add the apt sources line above.
• Install kde4base-dev, this will uninstall the normal qt4 packages and install the qt4 kdecopy packages.
• These KDE 4 packages install to /usr/lib/kde4 so run:
  • export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/kde4/lib
  • export KDEDIR=/usr/lib/kde4
  • export PATH=/usr/lib/kde4/bin/:$PATH
• Run some programmes. Konsole seems to work. Good luck.