I installed KDE 4.1 a few days ago, however when installing a widget yesterday, plasma had a fatal error and the desktop just looks weird (widgets all over the place, task bar doesn't properly load) now, even after a restart.

I'm just wondering would it be easier to upgrade to 4.2 than fix the problem. So what is the easiest way to upgrade to KDE 4.2? I'm using Ubuntu Intrepid.

Thanks in advance.

SuperNomad wrote:I installed KDE 4.1 a few days ago, however when installing a widget yesterday, plasma had a fatal error and the desktop just looks weird (widgets all over the place, task bar doesn't properly load) now, even after a restart.

I'm just wondering would it be easier to upgrade to 4.2 than fix the problem. So what is the easiest way to upgrade to KDE 4.2? I'm using Ubuntu Intrepid.

Thanks in advance.

I worte this but it is german only. However in short:

Stop kdm (do this logged out!)

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sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop

Edit sources.list

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sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Add:

##experimental PPA
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-experimental/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-experimental/ubuntu intrepid main

Upgrade:

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

And restart:

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sudo init 6

apt will complain about a missig key, add this one with

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sudo apt-key add foo