With the release of CentOS 8, and some testing, I have a few changes to the installation instructions. On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 2:01 PM Troy Dawson <tdawson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > # KDE now available on EPEL 8 playground > > Many thanks to all those who have helped make this happen. > > ## Why playground only > > KDE on EPEL 8 really needs to be in modules.[1] So we don't have to > pull all the KDE packages out of normal EPEL8, we have chosen to only > have them in EPEL8 playground, until modules are available in EPEL8. > > ## How to install > > ### First: install epel-release > rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm > ### Second: Enable epel-playground dnf config-manager --enable epel-playground > ### Third: Enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-8 [2] # If RHEL 8 do subscription-manager repos --enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms # If CentOS 8 do dnf config-manager --enable PowerTools > ### Fourth: install KDE > dnf group install "KDE Plasma Workspaces" > (Optional) dnf group install kde-desktop > (Optional) dnf group install kde-apps > (Optional) dnf group install kde-media --skip-broken > (Optional) dnf group install kde-education > (Optional) dnf group install kde-software-development > (Optional) dnf group install kf5-software-development > ### Fifth: Set sddm / KDE as desktop manager and desktop (Optional) [4] dnf install switchdesk system-switch-displaymanager switchdesk kde system-switch-displaymanager sddm systemctl set-default graphical.target (Not-Optional) > > ## Non-Essential, but major Packages that didn't build > calligra (An integrated office suite) > -- too many dependencies to build at this time. > telepathy (and everything depending on it) > -- python2 based and required python2-dbus, which isn't in RHEL8 > > ## Footnotes > [1] - Modules needed due to packages not in CRB, QT5 5.11, and a few > other smaller reasons. > [2] - There are several KDE critical packages in codeready-builder > [3] - Currently gdm does not like to start plasma, use sddm instead [4] - Disregard [3]. gdm works find with KDE/plasma Troy _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
