Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, the KDE Frameworks 5 will be used as default on Fedora 21 with KDE, both the KDE 4 and KDE 5 libraries being used side by side. While a bunch of KF5 packages have been already included in Fedora Rawhide, more will be available, starting with the next week. Fedora 21 wil be an interesting release, since the GNOME version uses GNOME 3.14, the first desktop environment with official Wayland support.
If you are a KDE enthusiast and want to see how the bleeding edge version of the desktop environment feels like, you can either install KDE Frameworks 5 on Fedora 20 KDE or use the unofficial KDE Framework 5 respin of Fedora 20.
To install the KDE Frameworks 5 packages (KDE 4.99.0), you have to use the Copr repository, but this may damage the system, due to the fact that KF 5 is still under development.
How to install the KDE Framework 5 on Fedora 20:
Download the repository:
$ sudo wget copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/dvratil/kde-frameworks/repo/fedora-20-i386/dvratil-kde-frameworks-fedora-20-i386.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/kde-frameworks5-fedora-20.repo
Install KF5:
$ sudo yum update
$ sudo yum install kf5-\* --exclude kf5-kactivities-runtime
How to install the KDE Framework 5 on Fedora 21 (currently Rawhide):
Download the repository:
$ sudo wget http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/dvratil/kde-frameworks/repo/fedora-rawhide-i386/dvratil-kde-frameworks-fedora-rawhide-i386.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/kde-frameworks5-fedora-rawhide.repo
Install KF5:
$ sudo yum update
$ sudo yum install kf5-\* --exclude kf5-kactivities-runtime
Or, download the Fedora 20 ISO with KDE Frameworks 5, direct download or via torrent.
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