Joe Brandt wrote: > I am new to Ubuntu but have been using Mandrake for a while now. > Ubuntu loaded Gnome by default and I am familiar with KDE. How does > one go about installing KDE (perferrably 3.3) on Ubuntu? check the excellent unofficial ubuntu-guide http://ubuntuguide.org/#extrarepositories and after following that, try : apt-get update ; apt-get install kde