How to upgrade KDE 4.0 apps to KDE 4.1 on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 19:30 +0530, Ashish Yadav wrote:
> I guess my way of doing things are vary different from what people usually do.
> 
> For first I have Ubuntu 8.04 and use Gnome as my Desktop Environment.
> Though as I do like some applications like Kate, Konsole and (now)
> Dolphin, I got them installed based on KDE 4.0.
> 
> Now I don't have a option to login and use KDE as my DE, however I can
> still use KDE applications while being in Gnome desktop ( I don't care
> about consistency in looks, what matters to me is usability according
> to my preferences).

Ok, I got it

> Now I don't want to install everything as I have set aside rather
> conservative amount of disk space for Ubuntu.

Ok

> To answer the question, of whether installing KDE 4.1 libs will
> effectively means installing KDE 4.1 is that that there is difference
> between installing KDE 4 as a desktop environment and installing KDE 4
> applications individually, which as I said above is not installing
> everything.

Ok, that depends on how KDE is package I guess, and I don't know much
about that.


> So I just wanted to update Kate, Konsole, Dolphin and KDE libs into
> their respective KDE 4.1 versions.
> 
> What I had done in time in between is to add "deb
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu hardy main" in
> the list of software sources though "Software Sources", and just run
> "Update Manager". Upon running "Update Manager" it offered me to
> upgrade KDE libs, Kate, Konsole and Dolphin along with their
> dependencies to KDE 4.1 versions.

Ok. I should of course have realized in my reply that you didn't have
kubuntu-desktop installed in the first place, otherwise you would
already have installed _everything_. 

So, a simple upgrade did what it was supposed to. Nice to know.

>  Though it warned me that some
> packages are not autheticated, which I guess is because of them not
> being in list of "Trusted software providers" under "Authentication"
> tab in "Software Sources".

Certainly. I guess ppa repos might have separate keys? Probably worth to
check.

> For now I ignored it ( GOD save me :-) ) and now I have Kate, Konsole,
> Dolphin based on and along with KDE 4.1 libs. As of now they all are
> working fine.
> However is there a way get the key files for the Kubuntu repositories?
> I searched at Kubuntu.org and Google but hadn't found a way.

I have no idea.