On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 10:04 AM Troy Dawson <tdawson(a)redhat.com> 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.
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https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-00865efa86
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https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-bda6808b41