%general-entities; ]> KDE Plasma KDE Plasma is a collection of packages based on top of KDE Frameworks and QML. They implement the KDE Display Environment (Plasma). &lfs122_checked; The instructions below build all of the Plasma packages in one step by using a bash script. Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &plasma-md5sum; Download size: &plasma-size; Estimated disk space required: &plasma-buildsize; Estimated build time: &plasma-time; Plasma Dependencies Required , , , , , , , , , , built with , , , , , , , , and Recommended , , , , , , , , , and the following Python modules: , , , (if they are not installed, they will be downloaded and installed by the drkonqi build procedure) Recommended (runtime) , , , , and Optional (build with -qt=true), , , , , KDevPlatform, libgps, libhybris, packagekit-qt, Qapt, SCIM, and socat (for pam_kwallet) The easiest way to get the KDE Plasma packages is to use a single wget to fetch them all at once: url=https://download.kde.org/stable/plasma/&plasma-version;/ wget -r -nH -nd -A '*.xz' -np $url The options used here are: -r recurse through child directories -nH disable generation of host-prefixed directories -nd do not create a hierarchy of directories -A '*.xz' just get the *.xz files -np don't get parent directories The order of building files is important due to internal dependencies. Create the list of files in the proper order as follows: cat > plasma-&plasma-version;.md5 << "EOF" be3516c192fcdbed07454de4b379f5db kdecoration-6.1.4.tar.xz dfd2bd982b5ab4daa5a3545e54cf9cb3 libkscreen-6.1.4.tar.xz c05c1623be161c149a61ac3db0ce5382 libksysguard-6.1.4.tar.xz 7035691a6f63b28f389d76002afc3da8 breeze-6.1.4.tar.xz 9d82aff77358f55069020a408987c111 breeze-gtk-6.1.4.tar.xz 2e3a5220acf76e2c0edf9701978e802b layer-shell-qt-6.1.4.tar.xz 250385889199481e81b979bd0dd51669 plasma-activities-6.1.4.tar.xz d6686b711c1e52c0de7c75b66c9dc6e3 libplasma-6.1.4.tar.xz 98101a610670cfae5779bc9940d8561f kscreenlocker-6.1.4.tar.xz ca7bf1418903745c65dcbf7583299ceb kinfocenter-6.1.4.tar.xz 4c4b58890f3bf7bf1b1d99e89f9271a8 kglobalacceld-6.1.4.tar.xz d297f096ac9492262b8274a024618bd3 kwayland-6.1.4.tar.xz 2d4516080f370a6cf40351266277b010 kwin-6.1.4.tar.xz 131d3250d9124c8f21751f5e5255a7d6 plasma5support-6.1.4.tar.xz fc8fe31088cad9f1a904554956df708b plasma-activities-stats-6.1.4.tar.xz 85a3ff80ec16299dc8aa12190ce2bc24 kpipewire-6.1.4.tar.xz 575c902a134bb24214f76c500460df39 plasma-workspace-6.1.4.tar.xz d000e0ee0f0e530c9dc64ab9252bc17a plasma-disks-6.1.4.tar.xz 180136a6b20736c359b999cbd3509afc bluedevil-6.1.4.tar.xz 3f065b337807c2a37d27a90bbcf1d8d1 kde-gtk-config-6.1.4.tar.xz bcfa7f92df7c2f1a6c7718a12f81734c kmenuedit-6.1.4.tar.xz 08590284bc4613804563db94a68c7cd2 kscreen-6.1.4.tar.xz 801318aea037e3d64f0aa7c9ca4fef8b kwallet-pam-6.1.4.tar.xz aa6bc381778b4e10c9798c3abeeb5692 kwrited-6.1.4.tar.xz 9c4f88ca9936252f62705f27687af764 milou-6.1.4.tar.xz cbeb7b6b0094e9ec19af07ea458c8eb3 plasma-nm-6.1.4.tar.xz aa32529c005706d2253333c93faa45de plasma-pa-6.1.4.tar.xz 4c7484c0d5e4352372d32a340656abec plasma-workspace-wallpapers-6.1.4.tar.xz f904e90a9db900551d228f20dac06a45 polkit-kde-agent-1-6.1.4.tar.xz 312fe34839a8d0861cc676766a4317e4 powerdevil-6.1.4.tar.xz adc8dad07c1157e79aed7476025b6925 plasma-desktop-6.1.4.tar.xz cfbc61347436b9ff7ff43b7130d7955a kgamma-6.1.4.tar.xz 41d6254b23061c4b4067b0d2db150cbf ksshaskpass-6.1.4.tar.xz #7bf7fd0d3a4a381148885cd058872212 plasma-sdk-6.1.4.tar.xz ce1bbaf7df576f6ddccd1adda545657a sddm-kcm-6.1.4.tar.xz #5482b86089286d9b0153f09752d57574 discover-6.1.4.tar.xz #d33ef85fb879f3073f1f26f1695e72f3 breeze-grub-6.1.4.tar.xz #42bb6940246062b24ee80ac6e3b40e2d breeze-plymouth-6.1.4.tar.xz e458fddb447b0c76e8e49bb772b423a9 kactivitymanagerd-6.1.4.tar.xz e0b3c21962456a5f9f79a739c477c22c plasma-integration-6.1.4.tar.xz #bebea20d8972e4052690877455aea645 plymouth-kcm-6.1.4.tar.xz 6bf11a27e32cc81e689867ddf59080c6 xdg-desktop-portal-kde-6.1.4.tar.xz 96d1d51407b85d22f01e6438e8e492cb drkonqi-6.1.4.tar.xz 34627cfef9b00bc58bc853790e978dfd plasma-vault-6.1.4.tar.xz #d7984e9a5d3c4ac7a6e36b656cc16f3a plasma-browser-integration-6.1.4.tar.xz 626f7f2e373085f948d0809413b0d49f kde-cli-tools-6.1.4.tar.xz 5ba8376be2db662750ef48f582f22352 systemsettings-6.1.4.tar.xz db8923a9b87e95dd5ec82a20da4ae95b plasma-thunderbolt-6.1.4.tar.xz #0106b72c6a46c966d31b7a4afdb456b3 plasma-mobile-6.1.4.tar.xz #8a7de2aa288ae50190fcd86a7d72cbcb plasma-nano-6.1.4.tar.xz 3bc5c58b1d06e4f4f1667799219ae887 plasma-firewall-6.1.4.tar.xz bf76a58afb8def0a0d07ea65429154fc plasma-systemmonitor-6.1.4.tar.xz e6e3a3bc681b7044b5219ed6417f0310 qqc2-breeze-style-6.1.4.tar.xz d3096345a478a821fa16620dadf95fb4 ksystemstats-6.1.4.tar.xz 03a717ac104f6f44ab9dffafdc37710b oxygen-sounds-6.1.4.tar.xz a2f8684825ee231fefad28589f321ce7 kdeplasma-addons-6.1.4.tar.xz #4691fcec4a83314e82c8d1b64bf23c8e flatpak-kcm-6.1.4.tar.xz 8175024493047e4e98cd12f4d52bc24b plasma-welcome-6.1.4.tar.xz 8431d1bf294e2ba3cacd9c455678d118 ocean-sound-theme-6.1.4.tar.xz ed8102ad60b2c8ae9ce12dcaf1ff3cd5 print-manager-6.1.4.tar.xz #523c82bcf113168b2113612d7b20e544 wacomtablet-6.1.4.tar.xz #ebb06249b835ea73743c9cf6e91df4df kwayland-integration-6.1.4.tar.xz #87332ae4b1c87a6921651ae9211a7e86 krdp-6.1.4.tar.xz 7ca2419cbdb9e4e9b2822b930ac5ec18 oxygen-6.1.4.tar.xz EOF In the above list, several files are commented out with a hash (#) character. The plasma-sdk package is optional and used for software development. The discover package requires to be built with the -D qt=true switch. The breeze-grub, breeze-plymouth, and plymouth-kcm packages above are all for customized support of Plymouth which is designed to be run within an initial ram disk during boot (see ). The plasma-browser-integration package is designed to implement browser integration for Plasma into Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. The package does build, but is only useful if you want these browsers to be integrated into the shell in a way that lets you see (and control) downloads from Plasma's notifications area, as well as allowing you to search browser history in the KDE Runner. Note that you must also install a browser extension for this to work. For more details, see the KDE Plasma wiki page about browser integration. The krdp package is used to allow an RDP server to be run while using Plasma. This feature requires the 2.x version of FreeRDP, which is not in BLFS. The plasma-nano package is used for embedded systems. The plasma-mobile package provides phone functionality for Plasma. The flatpak-kcm package is for managing support of flatpak applications. The wacomtablet and kwayland-integration applications require plasma5 support. &as_root; First, start a subshell that will exit on error: bash -e Install all of the packages by running the following commands: while read -r line; do # Get the file name, ignoring comments and blank lines if $(echo $line | grep -E -q '^ *$|^#' ); then continue; fi file=$(echo $line | cut -d" " -f2) pkg=$(echo $file|sed 's|^.*/||') # Remove directory packagedir=$(echo $pkg|sed 's|\.tar.*||') # Package directory tar -xf $file pushd $packagedir mkdir build cd build cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KF6_PREFIX \ -D CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBEXECDIR=libexec \ -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \ -D BUILD_QT5=OFF \ -D BUILD_TESTING=OFF \ -W no-dev .. && make as_root make install popd as_root rm -rf $packagedir as_root /sbin/ldconfig done < plasma-&plasma-version;.md5 exit If you did not set $KF6_PREFIX to /usr, create symlinks to allow display managers to find Plasma, and to allow the XDG Desktop Portal to be detected. As the &root; user: # Setup xsessions (X11 sessions) install -dvm 755 /usr/share/xsessions cd /usr/share/xsessions [ -e plasma.desktop ] || ln -sfv $KF6_PREFIX/share/xsessions/plasmax11.desktop # Setup wayland-sessions install -dvm 755 /usr/share/wayland-sessions cd /usr/share/wayland-sessions [ -e plasmawayland.desktop ] || ln -sfv $KF6_PREFIX/share/wayland-sessions/plasma.desktop # Setup xdg-desktop-portal install -dvm 755 /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal cd /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal [ -e kde-portals.conf ] || ln -sfv $KF6_PREFIX/share/xdg-desktop-portal/kde-portals.conf # Setup kde portal install -dvm 755 /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/portals cd /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/portals [ -e kde.portal ] || ln -sfv $KF6_PREFIX/share/xdg-desktop-portal/portals/kde.portal Useless systemd units have been installed in $KF6_PREFIX/lib. Remove them now (as root): rm -rf $KF6_PREFIX/lib/systemd If you built Plasma with the recommended Linux PAM support, create necessary configuration files by running the following commands as the root user: cat > /etc/pam.d/kde << "EOF" # Begin /etc/pam.d/kde auth requisite pam_nologin.so auth required pam_env.so auth required pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 1000 quiet auth include system-auth account include system-account password include system-password session include system-session # End /etc/pam.d/kde EOF cat > /etc/pam.d/kde-np << "EOF" # Begin /etc/pam.d/kde-np auth requisite pam_nologin.so auth required pam_env.so auth required pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 1000 quiet auth required pam_permit.so account include system-account password include system-password session include system-session # End /etc/pam.d/kde-np EOF cat > /etc/pam.d/kscreensaver << "EOF" # Begin /etc/pam.d/kscreensaver auth include system-auth account include system-account # End /etc/pam.d/kscreensaver EOF You can start Plasma from runlevel 3, using , or from runlevel 5, using a Display Manager, such as . You can start Plasma from a TTY, using . To start Plasma using , run the following commands: cat > ~/.xinitrc << "EOF" dbus-launch --exit-with-x11 $KF6_PREFIX/bin/startplasma-x11 EOF startx The X session starts on the first unused virtual terminal, normally vt7. You can switch to another vtn simultaneously pressing the keys Ctrl-Alt-Fn (n=1, 2, ...). To switch back to the X session, normally started at vt7, use Ctrl-Alt-F7. The vt where the command startx was executed will display many messages, including X starting messages, applications automatically started with the session, and eventually, some warning and error messages. You may prefer to redirect those messages to a log file, which not only will keep the initial vt uncluttered, but can also be used for debugging purposes. This can be done starting X with: startx &> ~/x-session-errors When shutting down or rebooting, the shutdown messages appear on the vt where X was running. If you wish to see those messages, simultaneously press keys Alt-F7 (assuming that X was running on vt7). Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories There are too many plasma programs (over 50 in /opt/kf6/bin) to list separately here. There are too many plasma libraries (over 250 in /opt/kf6/lib) to list separately here. There are too many plasma directories (over 2700 in /opt/kf6) to list separately here.