%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). &lfs121_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" 186e3608e5a9b4695db6f215b042b262 kdecoration-6.0.3.tar.xz 1f1d12d08bcf9309ab1c49641bb8eaf3 libkscreen-6.0.3.tar.xz 48b300ca4490da873f652596ef7f1444 libksysguard-6.0.3.tar.xz 68307af2cbd738f8222d4899c44e95f3 breeze-6.0.3.tar.xz ceab9d1b168592840f12ab7b301cee85 breeze-gtk-6.0.3.tar.xz c1206b4c182b3a01614d0a6ade96e76c layer-shell-qt-6.0.3.tar.xz eac6aebafbb8c2cbef5a121d5c0afb10 plasma-activities-6.0.3.tar.xz 2e71b9fb2f41bf2d63dcef0dc5da8fcd libplasma-6.0.3.tar.xz 209a5df56d6adf25edc58737e7c77ea7 kscreenlocker-6.0.3.tar.xz 109d6dcb1b0fab015bda4c3d508baf1f oxygen-6.0.3.tar.xz 637e400d06550a3ef3b872f8011470cd kinfocenter-6.0.3.tar.xz 021e8ab1bca725301425f946db4b74c6 kglobalacceld-6.0.3.tar.xz 7c2273b104ff7f83930d3e6d92b6c458 kwayland-6.0.3.tar.xz d04c8ab91d6befe8d51bf1f4b90eb733 kwin-6.0.3.1.tar.xz #5e6e0275809aabbd05bf703f0e1dfd91 kwin-6.0.3.tar.xz 28cb89b0a2c79e65b49a7396d2e156e7 plasma5support-6.0.3.tar.xz 329a0134a743d45a9f85c0f09763fa3f plasma-activities-stats-6.0.3.tar.xz c64d5a3b3a2a38e1efaaa18ec0ed0f15 kpipewire-6.0.3.tar.xz 635c8a687f95b77da538dfa67b64cf11 plasma-workspace-6.0.3.tar.xz fc1f1dbff3071fb70fde8f2b402f2cad plasma-disks-6.0.3.tar.xz be2620c0ce9947023c6fda97f9336a2b bluedevil-6.0.3.tar.xz e3fffb113826cddf572f1a63a4803285 kde-gtk-config-6.0.3.tar.xz d3b5bab22961eb000ffca29ed31e853b kmenuedit-6.0.3.tar.xz 8e1c31ac47e3f5751fa0415c77ffdb93 kscreen-6.0.3.tar.xz 0918f152f0049c8d2f3f96252d40b5d4 kwallet-pam-6.0.3.tar.xz 96a0755c99e66a0f5cc53d6f4c384493 kwrited-6.0.3.tar.xz 9ba1923b7fec42694d930e973894542f milou-6.0.3.tar.xz ed40c562d6b4a1b97271bb7d0cfc9710 plasma-nm-6.0.3.tar.xz 7ebe34a38f77fe3547b1f2614803f8ce plasma-pa-6.0.3.tar.xz ce37763cc6b1763cdf6c24cd5decd0d9 plasma-workspace-wallpapers-6.0.3.tar.xz 63b3ff934d9eb5fcccca27166dec78af polkit-kde-agent-1-6.0.3.tar.xz 9ea75163cc91e7e952285fc212745f4f powerdevil-6.0.3.tar.xz 12923d808bf6f6d9b3a807e72e1941ba plasma-desktop-6.0.3.tar.xz 41e74069e7487d72feb91b33de0a0c13 kgamma-6.0.3.tar.xz 38b6bf5620962febb86dd526aa1c4788 ksshaskpass-6.0.3.tar.xz #6c4ceff65c64495bbefdac1f163a2ca9 plasma-sdk-6.0.3.tar.xz d8ff0a33561736bd81d2f0cf26b80eb9 sddm-kcm-6.0.3.tar.xz #2f8485cee3dc80bb07fead85571ba8ad discover-6.0.3.tar.xz #68daa2b8dbb2e9f3ace51bcbaa2632c1 breeze-grub-6.0.3.tar.xz #83885a3eba356552f094874192c31c28 breeze-plymouth-6.0.3.tar.xz 52d84e5435c807851e91b31e724b0c2a kactivitymanagerd-6.0.3.tar.xz 4698864e111f4ca549364fe4fdf09ad3 plasma-integration-6.0.3.tar.xz #f8a08001b7a6f5865bceda7a28515308 plymouth-kcm-6.0.3.tar.xz 699405b00fd157de30a3a0cbd93703a0 xdg-desktop-portal-kde-6.0.3.tar.xz 497e9cd3c74e79c1401fbacdb5b71513 drkonqi-6.0.3.tar.xz 9b8d1a55ea8bbddb952bd9736155fbaa plasma-vault-6.0.3.tar.xz #069994af9dfd7b42c9408a8cd0fc49b3 plasma-browser-integration-6.0.3.tar.xz c2f06a0b32bc4e17441876c2c6bfa6ad kde-cli-tools-6.0.3.tar.xz 4af7e9b64eaf7e6055a94988bfe0b0e7 systemsettings-6.0.3.tar.xz ed18f319cd1e8abc7b6a220983e89dfd plasma-thunderbolt-6.0.3.tar.xz #6653173b1b429bd95b9a23a5d9821d5a plasma-nano-6.0.3.tar.xz #3e9ad4e8cd7f17c9ec9c27343be81669 plasma-mobile-6.0.3.tar.xz #1138655f05d7ad84edf55683c5b6359b plasma-mobile-6.0.3.1.tar.xz 13f3bd14874ddccbf19a454be09df781 plasma-firewall-6.0.3.tar.xz 8ae9665bb844ab84a6cbaa3059c64f50 plasma-systemmonitor-6.0.3.tar.xz ae65db4bac3bac3cf58ad4198c0b522a qqc2-breeze-style-6.0.3.tar.xz 3449bff47dd931b1da6e182512034fbc ksystemstats-6.0.3.tar.xz 787f7051bcc2e1f66dca37bd2326d75e oxygen-sounds-6.0.3.tar.xz 761ce4d784b8800bb8a51f0b3f8b042d kdeplasma-addons-6.0.3.tar.xz #d1513338480b042380a58aed49c1fac9 flatpak-kcm-6.0.3.tar.xz 512b5cc6ef9cbf22784d97b97dd45632 plasma-welcome-6.0.3.tar.xz 62c2fa68a55dc36ac182837a8accc892 ocean-sound-theme-6.0.3.tar.xz d407dff0646743d613d862d92c118005 print-manager-6.0.3.tar.xz #2766783e2a2f2e966bab54eddaf1ce59 wacomtablet-6.0.3.tar.xz #d3c59bcf64a487b17e89fbc9ec34a150 kwayland-integration-6.0.3.tar.xz EOF 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-sdk package is optional and used for software development. The plasma-nano package is used for embedded systems. The plasma-mobile package provides phone functionality for Plasma. The discover package requires to be built with the -Dqt=true switch. The flatpack-kcm package is for managing support of flatpack applications. The plasma-browser-integration package is only used by plasma-meta which is not installed by BLFS. The wacomtablet application requires plasma5 support. Two packages, kwayland-integration-6.0.3 and kwin-6.0.3. have been replaces by 6.0.3.1 versions. &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.