KDE3.5 Repository for Ubuntu Intrepid!

Welcome to Pearson Computing's KDE3.5 Repository for Ubuntu Intrepid!

To use, add these lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kb9vqf/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/kb9vqf/ubuntu intrepid main

Add the GPG signing key:
wget http://apt.pearsoncomputing.net/public.gpg
sudo apt-key add public.gpg

To install KDE 3.5:
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop-kde3






Ubuntu KDE 3 from scratch

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First of all, thanks to the MadScientist for helping out all of us KDE 3 types until KDE 4 is complete enough to use.

I've been experimenting with setting up a KDE 3 only system using the alternate install disk for intrepid.

First, boot up the alternate disk and hit F4 and choose "install a command line system".

Then go through the standard debian/ubuntu text based installer.

When you get to the command line, log in and update the system to get all the newest packages:

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Then, edit the /etc/apt/sources.list to add the KDE 3 ppa (see the first post on this thread).

Code:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Code:

#KDE3 Intrepid PPA
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kb9vqf/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/kb9vqf/ubuntu intrepid main

Next, install the KDE 3 desktop as suggested in the first post.

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop-kde3

The only problem I had was that /etc/network/interfaces had set up eth0 to start at boot. This prevents network manager from managing that interface. It also caused the system to hang for about 30 sec. at boot while it looked for a network connection. This is easily fixed-- just comment out the lines involving the interface (eth0), in /etc/network/interfaces like this:

Code:

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

Code:

#auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp