%general-entities; ]> KDE Plasma 5 KDE Plasma 5 is a collection of packages based on top of KDE Frameworks 5 and QML. They implement the KDE Display Environment (Plasma 5). &lfs113_checked; The instructions below build all of the Plasma 5 packages in one step by using a bash script. Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &plasma5-md5sum; Download size: &plasma5-size; Estimated disk space required: &plasma5-buildsize; Estimated build time: &plasma5-time; Plasma 5 Dependencies Required , , , , , , , built with , , , , , , , and Recommended , , , , , , , , , and Recommended (runtime) , , and Optional , , , , appstream-qt, KDevPlatform, libgps, libhybris, libraw1394, mockcpp, packagekit-qt, Qalculate, Qapt, SCIM, and socat (for pam_kwallet) is required for aura-browser, which is still in a beta-development stage. It is also optional for two other packages: libksysguard and kdeplasma-addons. If QtWebEngine is installed later, only these two packages need to be rebuilt. This allows a more complete display in the system monitor application. User Notes: The easiest way to get the KDE Plasma5 packages is to use a single wget to fetch them all at once: url=https://download.kde.org/stable/plasma/&plasma5-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-&plasma5-version;.md5 << "EOF" e436a039ec6b0016e5f52a71a5086ad8 kdecoration-5.26.5.tar.xz ec10440342d3b227499b61bbf86c04ab libkscreen-5.26.5.tar.xz a7a235a4d105eaa37c9c9923f34b7019 libksysguard-5.26.5.tar.xz 65c2bc9680f8830b1fdfc231a2923fe7 breeze-5.26.5.tar.xz b43a9abaa1dbf083fbac92febf06ee62 breeze-gtk-5.26.5.tar.xz 2a5c3f9ddb0dd1394574c85237c6a99d layer-shell-qt-5.26.5.tar.xz fbf3d2ff3dcfe2eb6770f18f0784b693 kscreenlocker-5.26.5.tar.xz 44db61e1b0c27d951cfc0dd45fa19947 oxygen-5.26.5.tar.xz 4a04fbf14eee03b81a5f95701758dadc kinfocenter-5.26.5.tar.xz 6b2566e536949698fcb43ecb1cb331c8 kwin-5.26.5.tar.xz 9b5ddbc03683da742ac0c03c821d9084 plasma-workspace-5.26.5.tar.xz 4c118121937c0c92ab9630b28be83aab plasma-disks-5.26.5.tar.xz 3440d7a273988cddb711ddd864ae85d7 bluedevil-5.26.5.tar.xz 75f668ce669e853565c375937ca6db3b kde-gtk-config-5.26.5.tar.xz 6e8673a19904011d79d9b8fd69890443 khotkeys-5.26.5.tar.xz 7425d8cd9889bdb327b8a8b339274aa5 kmenuedit-5.26.5.tar.xz 6f600d487eda8fd2cddf3e13c322ce78 kscreen-5.26.5.tar.xz def2d41c607309fdb622b270833b6078 kwallet-pam-5.26.5.tar.xz ce7b641d174973be3b944f9279609eaf kwayland-integration-5.26.5.tar.xz eb2171403b7fbae6b257404f58fea865 kwrited-5.26.5.tar.xz fc04856efefea7eba22064e7afdbddf7 milou-5.26.5.tar.xz adb5371f4383332da2d7bdc643d1ba3d plasma-nm-5.26.5.tar.xz 8a277824eec12d339b9b0cec40e141da plasma-pa-5.26.5.tar.xz 5112039742fa249c6272196fd2ea9b8c plasma-workspace-wallpapers-5.26.5.tar.xz 1319507df888d5d1d1584487c72bb41c polkit-kde-agent-1-5.26.5.tar.xz 1636fa123a48123922c6bd9114601188 powerdevil-5.26.5.tar.xz 9c85a12b5fc4593ee3c9c3602b7c1fd7 plasma-desktop-5.26.5.tar.xz 297ae0e3b025e2d8a9a6b4301aed97b3 kgamma5-5.26.5.tar.xz b34c0f8e8f00c881fa6636941a646cdf ksshaskpass-5.26.5.tar.xz #5310bb325acaacddd75cfcc9beb720ae plasma-sdk-5.26.5.tar.xz 579e478775361bbb3499e1ec5b5011a1 sddm-kcm-5.26.5.tar.xz 4c5d0fd055f04e9104de1039fb3d19e4 discover-5.26.5.tar.xz #4eddbae9f9e4add3637dd9fd99290047 breeze-grub-5.26.5.tar.xz #ddbea7d8d6c6bc3953039075628de7ee breeze-plymouth-5.26.5.tar.xz 7a85cf42b67ac38e490f0749cd25496e kactivitymanagerd-5.26.5.tar.xz 235d1c02582787ff5dd825fae434e6f9 plasma-integration-5.26.5.tar.xz a97a00137fcd4e446cbf849983bd1e64 plasma-tests-5.26.5.tar.xz #d16a86f8aee8e7f0da084535cdccca7f plymouth-kcm-5.26.5.tar.xz 49abaee061653e65afe9ba509c6aef41 xdg-desktop-portal-kde-5.26.5.tar.xz 8ea7332f06db75e41357cfe49d893042 drkonqi-5.26.5.tar.xz e147fcf2d2cfc030c3a5e12373e8dc29 plasma-vault-5.26.5.tar.xz a17305d04e3f43cd2c63870e58aa1002 plasma-browser-integration-5.26.5.tar.xz d7bf771ac16efb7b8c3c4e6a34193002 kde-cli-tools-5.26.5.tar.xz 5c9d258caff107e2d668308fbdc1b88a systemsettings-5.26.5.tar.xz fb368c5c4ac28061a706c3558e4c4b66 plasma-thunderbolt-5.26.5.tar.xz #ebe05c7b3b95d0dca235830ab17b8d57 plasma-nano-5.26.5.tar.xz #cb64c2c61676c499f1807184928083c7 plasma-mobile-5.26.5.tar.xz 0ac0a579b57b76e664d172845ae06a07 plasma-firewall-5.26.5.tar.xz d5c8bac2d756982328cd541649a7002b plasma-systemmonitor-5.26.5.tar.xz 17608c1fb4b6503193a5769f35c7f9e5 qqc2-breeze-style-5.26.5.tar.xz 146cef26a5a9b3c82d46cabd6842a07c ksystemstats-5.26.5.tar.xz 6943aba014019057384b47339bb8ed0a oxygen-sounds-5.26.5.tar.xz #7CF5ED434a6d21fd8458f89207986b9a aura-browser-5.26.5.tar.xz fc695034a7236fb6eab8a324216bc710 kdeplasma-addons-5.26.5.tar.xz 71fce4036d0f6a6fdc9bf5db3d47b9c9 kpipewire-5.26.5.tar.xz 26e7ae5887a56e971d2510262f9e0b55 plank-player-5.26.5.tar.xz 116e7d1a64ee17d5a31aed066709725a plasma-bigscreen-5.26.5.tar.xz d55d570e84840440f89233c8915e5872 plasma-remotecontrollers-5.26.5.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 and plasma-mobile provides phone functionality for Plasma. The aura-browser package is still under beta-development and requires . &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 $packagedir mkdir build cd build cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KF5_PREFIX \ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \ -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \ -Wno-dev .. && make as_root make install popd as_root rm -rf $packagedir as_root /sbin/ldconfig done < plasma-&plasma5-version;.md5 exit If you did not set $KF5_PREFIX to /usr, create symlinks to allow display managers to find Plasma: as_root install -dvm 755 /usr/share/xsessions && cd /usr/share/xsessions/ && [ -e plasma.desktop ] || as_root ln -sfv $KF5_PREFIX/share/xsessions/plasma.desktop && as_root install -dvm 755 /usr/share/wayland-sessions && cd /usr/share/wayland-sessions/ && [ -e plasmawayland.desktop ] || as_root ln -sfv $KF5_PREFIX/share/wayland-sessions/plasmawayland.desktop Useless systemd units have been installed in $KF5_PREFIX/lib. Remove them now (as root): rm -rf $KF5_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 Plasma5 from runlevel 3, using , or from runlevel 5, using a Display Manager, such as . You can start Plasma5 from a TTY, using . To start Plasma 5 using , run the following commands: cat > ~/.xinitrc << "EOF" dbus-launch --exit-with-x11 $KF5_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 (63 in /opt/kf5/bin) to list separately here. There are too many plasma libraries (40 in /opt/kf5/lib) to list separately here. There are too many plasma directories (over 1000 in /opt/kf5) to list separately here.