%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" 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 and krdp-6.1.4.tar.xz packages are only used by plasma-meta which is not installed by 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.