On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 10:04 AM Troy Dawson <tdaw...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Hello, > The KDE Plasma Desktop is now available for standard EPEL8. > > ## How to install > > ### First: install epel-release > rpm -Uvh > https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm > > ### Second: Enable codeready-builder or PowerTools > subscription-manager repos --enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms > #### If CentOS 8 do > dnf config-manager --enable PowerTools > > ### Third: install KDE > dnf group install "KDE Plasma Workspaces" > (Optional) dnf group install kde-desktop > (Optional) dnf group install kde-media > (Optional) dnf --enablerepo=epel-testing group install kde-apps [1] > (Optional) dnf --enablerepo=epel-testing group install okular [1] >
kde-apps and okular are now out of testing and into regular epel8 If you want, you can now do dnf group install kde-apps dnf install okular > ### (Optional) Fourth: Set sddm as desktop manager > systemctl set-default graphical.target [if in multi-user.target] > dnf install sddm\* > systemctl enable sddm -f > reboot > > Note1: There are some packages missing due to RHEL8 not releasing some > key -devel packages. Most notable are plasma-nm* and > kmail/kaddressbook (and everything related to that). > Note2: Any packages related to telepathy are also missing. This is > due to telepathy's current dependency on python2-dbus, which will not > be in RHEL8. > Note3: There are no packages that are qt4 based. > Note4: There were over a hundred more kde/plasma/qt5 related packages, > and I didn't know which ones people were actually using. So if you > have a favorite KDE/Plasma/QT5 application that isn't currently > available in epel8, and isn't in the list above, let me know and we'll > see if we can get it in. > > Troy > [1] - Still in epel-testing. I will send a follow up email when it is out. > -- https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-00865efa86 > -- https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-bda6808b41 _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
