Howto Install KDE 4.4 or Update to KDE 4.4 on Fedora 12 Linux
Currently, the latest version of the KDE desktop in Fedora is 4.3.5. I had some problems with its stability, so I decided to try out, how will work KDE 4.4.0 the latest stable version of KDE. At first I tried to install KDE 4.4 from Rawhide repository, but it failed to install from there. Here is instructions on how to install KDE 4.4 successfully using RPMFusion and KDE Packaging Project Repositories. It may be that RPMFusion repository is redundant, but KDE Packaging Project home page says: KDE-redhat packages depend on RPMFusion repository, so it’s reasonable also enable RPMFusion repository anyway.
Change to root User
su - ## OR ## sudo -i |
Enable Needed Repositories
## Enable RPMFusion Repository ## rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm ## Enable KDE Packaging Project Repository ## cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ wget http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/kde.repo |
Install KDE 4.4 or Update to KDE 4.4 on Fedora 12
yum --enablerepo=kde-testing groupinstall kde-desktop |
Post-Installation Setup and KDE 4.4 Desktop Starting
No problems should occur if you do clean KDE 4.4 install.
If you have a any older version of KDE installed, problems may occur with the Plasma Desktop. For example, if some Plasmoid widget refuses to load, then probably the entire Plasma desktop crash and the end result is a completely black screen. The problem can be examined in more detail by launching Plasma Desktop from the command line. If the problem persists, then an easy way to remedy the problem is as follows.
Move Current .kde Folder to .kde.old
mv ~/.kde ~/kde.old |
Restart whole KDE desktop or Plasma desktop.
Screenshot of KDE 4.4 on Fedora 12
Updated 26.2.2010, Now KDE 4.4 can also be found on Fedora 12 own updates repository
yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=updates list available |grep kde|grep "4.4" kde-l10n.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Arabic.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Basque.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Brazil.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-British.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Bulgarian.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Catalan.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Catalan-Valencian.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Chinese.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Chinese-Traditional.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Croatian.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Czech.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Danish.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Dutch.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Esperanto.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Estonian.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Finnish.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-French.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Frisian.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Galician.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-German.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Greek.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Gujarati.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Hebrew.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Hindi.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Hungarian.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Icelandic.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Irish.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Italian.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Japanese.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Kannada.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Kashubian.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Kazakh.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Khmer.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Korean.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Latvian.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Lithuanian.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-LowSaxon.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Macedonian.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Maithili.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Malayalam.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Norwegian.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Norwegian-Nynorsk.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Polish.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Portuguese.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Punjabi.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Romanian.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Russian.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Serbian.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Sinhala.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Slovak.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Slovenian.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Spanish.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Swedish.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Tajik.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Turkish.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Ukrainian.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-l10n-Walloon.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kde-style-phase.i686 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kdeadmin.i686 7:4.4.0-2.fc12 updates kdeartwork.i686 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kdeartwork-sounds.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kdeartwork-wallpapers.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kdebase-devel.i686 6:4.4.0-3.fc12 updates kdebase-runtime-flags.noarch 4.4.0-3.fc12 updates kdebase-workspace-devel.i686 4.4.0-7.fc12 updates kdebase-workspace-googlegadgets.i686 4.4.0-7.fc12 updates kdebase-workspace-wallpapers.noarch 4.4.0-7.fc12 updates kdebindings.i686 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kdebindings-devel.i686 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kdeedu.i686 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kdeedu-devel.i686 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kdeedu-kstars.i686 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kdeedu-kstars-libs.i686 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kdeedu-libs.i686 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kdeedu-math.i686 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kdegames-devel.i686 6:4.4.0-2.fc12 updates kdegraphics-devel.i686 7:4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kdelibs-apidocs.noarch 6:4.4.0-9.fc12 updates kdelibs-devel.i686 6:4.4.0-9.fc12 updates kdemultimedia-devel.i686 6:4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kdenetwork-devel.i686 7:4.4.0-2.fc12 updates kdepim-devel.i686 6:4.4.0-5.fc12 updates kdepim-runtime-devel.i686 4.4.0-4.fc12 updates kdepimlibs-apidocs.noarch 4.4.0-2.fc12 updates kdepimlibs-devel.i686 4.4.0-2.fc12 updates kdeplasma-addons-devel.i686 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kdesdk-devel.i686 4.4.0-1.fc12 updates kdetoys.i686 7:4.4.0-1.fc12 updates |
Install KDE 4.4 from Fedora 12 Updates Repository
Change to root User
su - ## OR ## sudo -i |
Install KDE 4.4 or Update to KDE 4.4 on Fedora 12
yum groupinstall kde-desktop |
Check Post-Installation Setup and KDE 4.4 Desktop Starting section.
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Thx for your tutorial..
Thanks mate installing on Fedora 15.
Thanks again! :)