Re: KDE Plasma Desktop available for EPEL8

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On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 10:04 AM Troy Dawson <tdawson@xxxxxxxxxx> 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
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