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ratcat
March 3rd, 2011, 04:45 AM
One Sempron system with Kubuntu 4.5.1 runs ok. I loaded the 4.6 alpha 2 Cd and the system never started, locked up.
A second system W7 AMD quad 4, nvidia Gt, the 4.6 alpha runs perfect with the same live cd. This is bad news, the update, upgrade path of Windows 7 and Apple Mac systems. And now Linux? KDE looks like OSX, and may end up costing as much?
There is no such thing as a free puppy!

inobe
March 3rd, 2011, 05:19 AM
i don't know about the cd, but if you have kubuntu 10.10, you can upgrade to kde 4.6 stable, because it's not beta anymore!

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-sc-4.6

you just need to add that ppa, then check for updates after reloading repos, should get a few hundred packages.

ankspo71
March 3rd, 2011, 05:47 AM
I loaded the 4.6 alpha 2 Cd

Do you mean you are trying Kubuntu 11.04 alpha 2 cd which comes with KDE 4.6? If this is what you are trying to do, then I should say that 11.04 "alpha2" is still going through major bug testing and isn't ready for the general public. The final version will be ready to download on April 28th.

I agree with the above poster's comment. KDE 4.6 can be installed on Kubuntu 10.10. This is what I have done and it is working good for me.

Here's the Kubuntu announcement for KDE 4.6
http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-sc-4.6

Here's the ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports repository:
https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/backports