KDE Software includes Plasma, KDE Applications, KDE Frameworks, and much more. This page lists active distributions that ship Plasma 5, distributions on which Plasma 5 can be installed, and ways to get KDE apps in a distribution-agnostic fashion. Please keep these lists in alphabetical order. Install KDE Plasma on CentOS 9|AlmaLinux 9|RHEL 9. Install the EPEL repository using the following command. This enables installing external packages on your system. Update your system packages with the following command. Enable code-ready builder on AlmaLinux|CentOS|RHEL respectively with the following commands. Right click on the desktop > add widgets. It will open the widgets list. Click "get more widgets" > "Download new widgets" then type the name of the widget in the search box (it may be hidden in a hamburger menu). Once you've installed it, you can put it wherever you want on the desktop or a panel. 2. r/kde. 4. Nilium-Plasma-Theme. If you’re looking for a dark theme that’s doomed to give your Plasma 5 desktop an elegant look, try Nilium-Plasma-Theme. It’s based on Noc and Helium themes. Download. 5. Materia Dark KDE. Materia Dark KDE is a port of the popular GTK theme Materia, custom-made for the Plasma 5 desktop. Execute the following command to begin the KDE Plasma desktop installation, depending on which package you wish to install. The kubuntu-full package will come with more KDE apps installed by default. $ sudo tasksel install kubuntu-desktop OR $ sudo tasksel install kubuntu-full KDE Plasma installation command on Ubuntu 22.04 Hit cancel on the dialog to enter a password. Then click the configure button at the bottom right. Change the name to whatever you like, the SSID to your SSID, set all other settings as desired as well as your password, then hit ok. As an extra bit of oddness, it may not work the first time. Install KDE Plasma Desktop on CentOS 8. The repository is set and now it’s time to run a command that will enable the Power Tools on CentOS along with the installation of Plasma 5 Desktop with base X. dnf --enablerepo=epel,PowerTools group -y install "KDE Plasma Workspaces" "base-x". dnf --enablerepo=epel,powertools group -y install "KDE in order to build Plasma6/KF6 beta stuff you need to make sure to modify the kdesrc-buildrc. Change all the 5 to 6 and under the global options add. branch-group kf6-qt6 cmake-options -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DQT_MAJOR_VERSION=6 -DBUILD_WITH_QT6=ON. and according to the guide at the bottom add. Fedora KDE Minimal Install. A guide to install Fedora Linux with the KDE Plasma Desktop Environment (DE) from a minimal Fedora installation. This will allow better control over which packages are included in Fedora KDE and result in a cleaner, lighter Fedora installation than the official Fedora KDE spin offers. After installation, open System Settings, go to Appearance -> Application Style, and choose Lightly. Then, also in Appearence , go to Window Decorations and choose Lightly . You may have to logout and log back in for the changes to take effect. v8GB1.