RHEL 8.2 and CentOS 8.2 have an updated qt5. This updated qt5 allowed us to update the KDE Plasma Desktop in EPEL8. We are not at the following versions.
qt5 - 5.12 plasma - 5.18 [1] kf5 - 5.68 / 19.12 apps - 5.18 / 19.12
Installation Instructions: ### 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 #### If CentOS Stream do dnf config-manager --enable Stream-PowerTools
### Third: install KDE dnf group install "KDE Plasma Workspaces" or dnf group install kde-desktop (Optional) dnf group install kde-media (Optional) dnf group install kde-apps (Optional) dnf install okular
### (Optional) Fourth: Set sddm as desktop manager ### Required if you started from a minimal install systemctl set-default graphical.target [if in multi-user.target] dnf install sddm* systemctl enable sddm -f reboot
### (Optional) If you installed in GNOME systemctl reload gdm
Known Issues: Several (about 50%) settings do not work in System Settings. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1838801 Help resolving this bug would be appreciated. It is irritating, but not critical.
Many thanks to all who helped with this. Troy Dawson
[1] plasma-nm is currently at 5.15. This has been verified to work. We will hopefully be able to update it to 5.18 within a month.