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Kubuntu Karmic Alpha 3

Kubuntu Karmic Alpha 3 has been released for testing. This is the first release to feature a netbook install image. See the technical overview for what else is new and where to get it.

KDE 4.3 RC 2 Available

On July 11, 2009, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With No Comments

The second release candidate is out from KDE for the upcoming 4.3. Users of the Karmic development release can upgrade to the latest packages. Note that these packages still have a bug which causes X to die during the upgrade. The upgrade will continue and you can reboot when it…

KDE 4.3 RC 1 Available

On July 2, 2009, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With No Comments

The release candidate is out from KDE for the upcoming 4.3. Users of the Karmic development release can upgrade to the latest packages. 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

On June 28, 2009, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With No Comments

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

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

KDE 4.3 Beta 2

On June 10, 2009, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With No Comments

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

On June 3, 2009, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With No Comments

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

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

On May 27, 2009, Posted by , In News, By , , With No Comments

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

On May 18, 2009, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With No Comments

KDE 4.3 Beta 1 is now available in the Kubuntu Karmic repositories. Packages for Jaunty are available in the Kubuntu Experimental repository. To install these, add this line to your software sources. deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/experimental/ubuntu jaunty main Then refresh and do a full upgrade.