OK. I've been up about 24 hours. Ubuntu Natty (amd64) on a Dell somethingorother. Install of Ubuntu was smoooth. Did the steps Tim outlined:
On 09/12/11 12:11, Timothy Pearson wrote:
I suggest you start with a default Ubuntu (not Kubuntu) installation. Add these four lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-nightly-build-dep... natty main deb-src http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-nightly-build-dep... natty main deb http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-nightly-builds/ub... natty main deb-src http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-nightly-builds/ub... natty main
The, from a terminal, execute: sudo apt-get update sudo passwd
<enter a temporary root password> sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop-trinity sudo passwd -l
Be sure to specifically choose a TDE session on the login screen. If you are untarring an old $HOME onto your new installation simply make a symlink from .kde (if you used Kubuntu previously) or .kde3 if you've used one of Tim's previous kits/distros and all your stuff comes back magically.
Hurray!
Note that there is still an issue with keys and mirrors, so you will likely still see:
W: GPG error: http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net natty Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 43F1DC4F2B8638D0 W: GPG error: http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net natty Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 43F1DC4F2B8638D0
Thanks, Tim, for not forcing me (and the rest of us) to have to make a new desktop layout just because KDE4 is "better" in some programmer's mind. I've had mine for *years*, even under Solaris(!) and didn't see the need to change.
Some reports on issues a little later ... :-)