KDE Plasma 5 Installation
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Hello everyone, I am interested in trying KDE Plasma 5 and I tried installed the Desktop but I could not get it working. Does anyone have experience with setting this up? I'm wondering if there is something about Trisquel that would stop me from installing it. Yes, I am a GNU Plus Linux novice - about 5 months young now :)
Any help on installing this would be awesome. Many thanks.
/david
Thanks Juergen, that was a great response and exactly what I was suspicious of too. Cheers!
Thanks Juergen, that was a great response and exactly what I was suspicious
of too. Cheers!
There is this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/backports
It contains a package named "plasma-desktop". You must however trust the people who administrate it. In particular, they could include proprietary software (now or along a future update).
Some Ubuntu users reported that the PPA has stopped providing packages for Ubuntu 14.04 (hence for Trisquel 7) since last June: https://askubuntu.com/questions/668384/how-to-upgrade-to-kde-plasma-5-on-ubuntu-14-04-3
But those packages are listed. So, either I do not understand or the situation has changed. If you want to try the adventure (despite the probable problems), execute this command (do not forget the option "-a"!) in a terminal:
$ echo 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu trusty main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
You can then open the "Synaptic package manager" (from the "System settings"), "reload", and install "plasma-desktop".
I tried this and it didn't work for me for installing KDE Plasma 5.
I tried this and it didn't work for me for installing KDE Plasma 5.
I am a translator!
**compile**
Hello everyone, I am interested in trying KDE Plasma 5 and I tried installed
the Desktop but I could not get it working. Does anyone have experience with
setting this up? I'm wondering if there is something about Trisquel that
would stop me from installing it. Yes, I am a GNU Plus Linux novice - about 5
months young now :)
Any help on installing this would be awesome. Many thanks.
/david
The PPA doesn't contain Plasma 5 for trusty, so you'll have to compile. Or just use Debian testing.
just add the PPA but instead of installing "plasma-desktp" install "kde-plasma-desktop". The difference is that kde-plasma-desktop includes a minimal set of apps necessary for KDE to work well (install kde-standard for all the apps for kde)
There is this PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/backports
It contains a package named "plasma-desktop". You must however trust the
people who administrate it. In particular, they could include proprietary
software (now or along a future update).
Some Ubuntu users reported that the PPA has stopped providing packages for
Ubuntu 14.04 (hence for Trisquel 7) since last June:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/668384/how-to-upgrade-to-kde-plasma-5-on-ubuntu-14-04-3
But those packages are listed. So, either I do not understand or the
situation has changed. If you want to try the adventure (despite the probable
problems), execute this command (do not forget the option "-a"!) in a
terminal:
$ echo 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu trusty
main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
You can then open the "Synaptic package manager" (from the "System
settings"), "reload", and install "plasma-desktop".
I am a translator!
**compile**
The PPA doesn't contain Plasma 5 for trusty, so you'll have to compile. Or
just use Debian testing.
just add the PPA but instead of installing "plasma-desktp" install
"kde-plasma-desktop". The disfference is that kde-plasma-desktop includes a
minimal set os apps necessary for KDE to work well (install kde-standard for
all the apps for kde)
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