[CentOS-devel] Updated KDE available in EPEL 8

Troy Dawson

tdawson at redhat.com
Mon Jun 15 17:04:51 UTC 2020


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.



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