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Revision as of 09:38, 21 March 2023
KDE is a software project comprising a desktop environment known as Plasma, a collection of libraries and frameworks known as KDE Frameworks, and several applications known as KDE Applications. Their UserBase wiki has detailed information about most KDE Applications.
ppc64le and s390x architectures due to the kdeplasma-addons dependency not being available there. However, the rest of Plasma can be installed separately to get a functional desktop.
Prerequisites
- Install Alpine Linux
- Create a user account
- Enable the
communityrepository - For users interested in Xorg as opposed to Wayland, install the Xorg base packages
Installation
The following command will install the Plasma desktop as specified by the plasma metapackage, including the sddm display manager and other assorted niceties.
# apk add plasma elogind polkit-elogind
After installation, users may wish to enable the following services:
# rc-update add dbus
# rc-update add elogind
# rc-update add polkit
# setup-devd udev
KDE Applications
To install the full set of KDE Applications, install kde-applications. You can also choose to install a smaller set of applications by installing any of the subpackages:
- kde-applications-accessibility
- kde-applications-admin
- kde-applications-base
- kde-applications-edu, not available for
ppc64leands390x - kde-applications-games
- kde-applications-graphics
- kde-applications-multimedia
- kde-applications-network, not available for
ppc64leands390x - kde-applications-pim, not available for
ppc64leands390x - kde-applications-sdk
- kde-applications-utils
- kde-applications-webdev
Starting Plasma
Plasma can be started using a display manager or from the console.
Using a display manager
When Plasma is installed via the plasma meta-package, the display manager is set up using sddm.
Make sure you enable and start the SDDM service.
rc-update add sddm rc-service sddm start
- Select Plasma to launch a new session in Wayland
- Select Plasma (X11) to launch a new session in Xorg
From the console
The Xorg session can be launched by installing xinit and appending exec startplasma-x11 to your .xinitrc file. To start X:
xinit
For the Wayland session run
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland