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The latest installation instructions for KDE Plasma
Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, the beta version of the KDE Frameworks 5 is already available for testing, being added to the repositories, for an easier usage.
The KDE Frameworks 5 packages are packed in two groups: kf5 and kf5-aids and they can live side-by-side with the KDE 4 libraries. Also, the Plasma Next packages will be soon added to the kde repos soon.
- If you want to test KDE 5 on Fedora 20 or Fedora 21, follow the instructions in this article.
The Arch Linux users can install and test the KDE Frameworks 5 and KDE Plasma Next on their systems easily. All they have to do is to install the kf5 and the kft-aids packages:
$ sudo pacman -S kf5 kf5-aids
Next, to use Oxygen Plasma and Kwin, do:
$ sudo pacman -S kwin oxygen
$ export KF5=/opt/kf5
$ export QML2_IMPORT_PATH=$KF5/lib/qt/qml:/usr/lib/qt/qml
$ export QT_PLUGIN_PATH=$KF5/lib/qt/plugins:/usr/lib/qt/plugins
$ export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=$KF5/etc/xdg:/etc/xdg
$ export PATH=$KF5/bin:$PATH
$ kwin --replace