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Install KDE Software Compilation 4.5 In Kubuntu (10.04 and 10.10)

By on August 11th, 2010     

KDE Software Compilation 4.5 was released yesterday and we told you that we will tell you when it is available in the PPA. Well, it is available now in the Kubuntu Backports PPA.

To upgrade your to KDE Software Compilation 4.5 in Kubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and Kubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, open the Konsole and execute the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Thats all. All KDE SC users should upgrade in my opinion. KDE SC 4.5 is really amazing and has really come a long way from KDE 4.0.




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    I strongly suggest NOT to install KDE SC 4.5.0 from the kubuntu backports. First you have to actually succeed installing it (which is not easy). It is very unstable and slow. Also Qt 4.7.0 beta 2 is installed (which is probably the reason of this instability and slowness). It feels like using KDE SC 4.0.0 again. This very webpage crashes Konqueror consistently with the following backtrace:

    Application: Konqueror (konqueror), signal: Segmentation fault
    [Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7fcd444e5760 (LWP 13341))]

    Thread 2 (Thread 0x7fcd27fc9710 (LWP 13397)):
    #0 0x00007fcd43d67f83 in *__GI___poll (fds=, nfds=, timeout=-1) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c:87
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    #2 0x00007fcd3bf5b8fc in g_main_context_iteration () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
    #3 0x00007fcd4187cbd6 in QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents(QFlags) () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
    #4 0x00007fcd4184f7b2 in QEventLoop::processEvents(QFlags) () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
    #5 0x00007fcd4184fb9c in QEventLoop::exec(QFlags) () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
    #6 0x00007fcd4175b23d in QThread::exec() () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
    #7 0x00007fcd4182f6d8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
    #8 0x00007fcd4175e1be in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
    #9 0x00007fcd3f27d9ca in start_thread (arg=) at pthread_create.c:300
    #10 0x00007fcd43d746fd in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:112
    #11 0×0000000000000000 in ?? ()

    Thread 1 (Thread 0x7fcd444e5760 (LWP 13341)):
    [KCrash Handler]
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    #9 0x00007fcd31fd6f13 in KJS::Collector::collect() () from /usr/lib/libkjs.so.4
    #10 0x00007fcd326e8945 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.5
    #11 0x00007fcd3249af39 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.5
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    #47 0x00007fcd4187d043 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
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    #52 0x00007fcd409f77ee in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4
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    #58 0x00007fcd3270dd17 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.5
    #59 0x00007fcd3270efd0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.5
    #60 0x00007fcd32023238 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libkjs.so.4
    #61 0x00007fcd320013b4 in KJS::FunctionImp::callAsFunction(KJS::ExecState*, KJS::JSObject*, KJS::List const&) () from /usr/lib/libkjs.so.4
    #62 0x00007fcd32023238 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libkjs.so.4
    #63 0x00007fcd320013b4 in KJS::FunctionImp::callAsFunction(KJS::ExecState*, KJS::JSObject*, KJS::List const&) () from /usr/lib/libkjs.so.4
    #64 0x00007fcd32023238 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libkjs.so.4
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    • http://digitizor.com/ Ricky Laishram

      I have been hearing that a lot of people are having problems with updating to KDE SC 4.5 in Kubuntu. Mine went very smoothly without a hitch, thankfully. And I have also not had any stability issues. I have been using it since yesterday and nothing has crashed or behaved weirdly. And Konqueror did not crash on opening Digitizor.
      This is really weird indeed.

    • http://digitizor.com/ Ricky Laishram

      I have been hearing that a lot of people are having problems with updating to KDE SC 4.5 in Kubuntu. Mine went very smoothly without a hitch, thankfully. And I have also not had any stability issues. I have been using it since yesterday and nothing has crashed or behaved weirdly. And Konqueror did not crash on opening Digitizor.
      This is really weird indeed.



Install KDE Software Compilation 4.5 In Kubuntu (10.04 and 10.10) was originally published on Digitizor.com on August 11, 2010 - 1:52 pm (Indian Standard Time)