%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" fb602565447d49747a7dda2aa40c4d4f kdecoration-6.0.5.tar.xz 130f277cd002be34fad025dc78222db9 libkscreen-6.0.5.tar.xz be08ef0ddb460588ab2ac89d9a537956 libksysguard-6.0.5.tar.xz c819c48d6ad6ea4c0ef25cb8bf7f9a57 breeze-6.0.5.tar.xz 851d8b1ed70a24b83d1ee34cabffbd6c breeze-gtk-6.0.5.tar.xz 7e901330dfc754378f1f88fae0a9941a layer-shell-qt-6.0.5.tar.xz 4bced972e9db7eac8a0fa8ce22dcac6b plasma-activities-6.0.5.tar.xz 8c4ce38506ec355a77d3c2cef61d6b5b libplasma-6.0.5.tar.xz ca79da353a27361afab76e6a6d09f364 kscreenlocker-6.0.5.tar.xz f97e0e893d49df544614350db71adbd4 kinfocenter-6.0.5.tar.xz 26fe1aacf9d4d415d1853e113618b66b kglobalacceld-6.0.5.tar.xz 83985c22ca89897cf17b803a9b50f15e kwayland-6.0.5.tar.xz 889a0c874a93a9892c70a6cd9969abb7 kwin-6.0.5.tar.xz 453a34c77f28ad6d8422d79b88bf7b9f plasma5support-6.0.5.tar.xz 3dcad1de3a6866f615597576b305ebce plasma-activities-stats-6.0.5.tar.xz 84caae7612832d683c373f5415788747 kpipewire-6.0.5.tar.xz #7697ef8eedbc90c06e160507775f9e3b plasma-workspace-6.0.5.tar.xz 518d71251d583c3ad13803779f03c2ff plasma-workspace-6.0.5.1.tar.xz 325d6807259349e4a4a9e9740c752e62 plasma-disks-6.0.5.tar.xz 327b7df00c4a2bed328348a843cd10f6 bluedevil-6.0.5.1.tar.xz #b7c69ea25e4e401b78aab4bd59488190 bluedevil-6.0.5.tar.xz ea1982dd90db2730b0f2c590aead7fce kde-gtk-config-6.0.5.tar.xz 5cdef6d17824b2a9bfde05e217497a7b kmenuedit-6.0.5.tar.xz b5c9406a29aa68a3f6b1d4a48efa9f91 kscreen-6.0.5.tar.xz b0a25bc01b7f65e0207d5ebfc307ed8b kwallet-pam-6.0.5.tar.xz 42290d2c2cf87fc1b835332414b9d047 kwrited-6.0.5.tar.xz cf120d99e7d14964fef5de4e1cfcb7a3 milou-6.0.5.tar.xz 949b249d147e2b3213d7e4c1b5bb8590 plasma-nm-6.0.5.tar.xz e4274d2a91d96e3f0774aa94a57eba58 plasma-pa-6.0.5.tar.xz a6d4f30dbb3eaa9147cb5ccd788472d8 plasma-workspace-wallpapers-6.0.5.tar.xz fb2f392f7370bd665b918f10ec1fbe38 polkit-kde-agent-1-6.0.5.tar.xz deef232b4ceb90980818fa4358a37d52 powerdevil-6.0.5.tar.xz 4ac4551e1afb524155a1c5fd1028158e plasma-desktop-6.0.5.tar.xz 47460a8289c726a2a69c4511a3bdc007 kgamma-6.0.5.tar.xz 2f52416fb211ab956d430759a864c382 ksshaskpass-6.0.5.tar.xz #6edf6bb59da445ff7868670503714ec7 plasma-sdk-6.0.5.tar.xz 8852a3f7ee9cf2c1b2cdce4da79e1709 sddm-kcm-6.0.5.tar.xz #f84b8a4b729850cc05ef7e06f7526fec discover-6.0.5.tar.xz #6e17a1954b2a58f220036e630fd40f64 breeze-grub-6.0.5.tar.xz #387c3ff10618dcd37b5b4c1a42902c86 breeze-plymouth-6.0.5.tar.xz 5456b489df70cd0729f105327f5f71ff kactivitymanagerd-6.0.5.tar.xz 0af72c4d39d434137a5f36eb8a67efe3 plasma-integration-6.0.5.tar.xz #5dbfe960bf77156fb55e1a0134448655 plymouth-kcm-6.0.5.tar.xz 3225b3c5d71e0d24c13392137a472be1 xdg-desktop-portal-kde-6.0.5.tar.xz f700792dae0709d39e0eff83127c2165 drkonqi-6.0.5.tar.xz bb84a93d616e451b24ed0b8fe3baf24d plasma-vault-6.0.5.tar.xz #0623a32f1d444dfa77c668e8f12fa329 plasma-browser-integration-6.0.5.tar.xz ef739ab228cb266108ccdc43f7ecb153 kde-cli-tools-6.0.5.tar.xz f56788b6b76f847df6463f4d5aaa4c49 systemsettings-6.0.5.tar.xz 97f0fa5b27e91b5dc502e73fb96c616e plasma-thunderbolt-6.0.5.tar.xz #6bc6da7089cf4c526d0ed9744a9629d5 plasma-nano-6.0.5.tar.xz #a3588aad3c6c7baaa77f6343bfa9f734 plasma-mobile-6.0.5.tar.xz 778a0e478764fa02fbadbc5a54087323 plasma-firewall-6.0.5.tar.xz ba5c4c7cb7ab13d33ff3b5b5b8cb8b9b plasma-systemmonitor-6.0.5.tar.xz f07d41d35c675e2c3a1fe1e51dbe7f75 qqc2-breeze-style-6.0.5.tar.xz 771bd96d6818f05b5e22dc3a9c2f4871 ksystemstats-6.0.5.tar.xz c0ee6a9eff0c53ba7db72a2f7ea18944 oxygen-sounds-6.0.5.tar.xz f166678fa85a8d7fbdb04bac7e7efcb7 kdeplasma-addons-6.0.5.tar.xz #5727a82e55ba8ce755b4b12a17f39efe flatpak-kcm-6.0.5.tar.xz 102cfff8c5dd75ffe6a607f97a905e4d plasma-welcome-6.0.5.tar.xz 058f66a6f172200eb73ae0fc93efec75 ocean-sound-theme-6.0.5.tar.xz ddc3643fadbf754c2ef3181bfde93400 print-manager-6.0.5.tar.xz #0fc72159968efc1798af78716b42c2f9 wacomtablet-6.0.5.tar.xz #b5e7dc5cb908c0a8f8b95b4059152585 kwayland-integration-6.0.5.tar.xz EOF In the above list, several files are commented out with a hash (#) character. Two packages, bluedevil and plasma-workspace, have been replaced by a 6.0.5.1 version. 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 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 flatpack-kcm package is for managing support of flatpack 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.