How To Install KDE Plasma on CentOS 7

KDE Plasma on CentOS 7

KDE is a well-known desktop environment for the Unix-Like systems designed for users who wants to have a nice desktop environment for their machines, It is one of the most used desktop interfaces out there.

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Step 1. First let’s start by ensuring your system is up-to-date.

Step 2. Installing KDE Plasma.

Prerequisites

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation KDE Plasma desktop environment on a CentOS 7 server.
Install KDE Plasma on CentOS 7

Step 1. First let’s start by ensuring your system is up-to-date.

yum clean all
yum -y update

Step 2. Installing KDE Plasma.

Installing the KDE Desktop is now simple, following command will install KDE:

yum groupinstall -y "KDE Plasma Workspaces"

By default after installing these packages, the default target should have automatically updated, meaning that after a reboot the GUI will automatically be loaded. We can check the current default target as shown below:

# systemctl set-default graphical.target
Removed symlink /etc/systemd/system/default.target.
Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/default.target to /usr/lib/systemd/system/graphical.target.

All done. Reboot your CentOS 7 system:

reboot

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed KDE. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing KDE Plasma desktop environment on CentOS 7 system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official KDE web site.

How To Install KDE Plasma on Ubuntu 17.10

Install KDE Plasma on Ubuntu 17

Plasma is the KDE workspace. Actually it is a technology that can adapt to many types of devices. Currently there are two varieties of Plasma: The Plasma Desktop environment which is the focus of the majority of our pages and Plasma Mobile, the new cool environment for pads and smartphones.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation KDE Plasma desktop environment on an Ubuntu Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark server.

Install KDE Plasma on Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark

Step 1. First make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Step 2. Installing KDE Plasma on Ubuntu 17.10.

First, you need to add backports PPA to your Continue reading “How To Install KDE Plasma on Ubuntu 17.10”

How To Install KDE Plasma on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Install KDE Plasma on Ubuntu 16

KDE is a well-known desktop environment for the Unix-Like systems designed for users who wants to have a nice desktop environment for their machines, It is one of the most used desktop interfaces out there.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation KDE Plasma desktop environment on a Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) server.
Install KDE Plasma on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Step 1. First make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running these following apt-get commands in the terminal.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Step 2. Installing KDE Plasma.

First, run the following commands to add the Kubuntu backports PPA:

add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports

 

Now install KDE Plasma using following one single command in your system:

apt update
apt install kubuntu-desktop

You will be asked to configure sddm, select OK and then selectlightdm as Default display manager as shown in the following figure:

KDE-installation

Once the KDE installation is done, reboot the system to take effect. On the login screen, select KDE Plasma as a desktop environment and login to the system. Now your Ubuntu system has the KDE desktop environment.

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed KDE. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing KDE Plasma desktop environment on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official KDE web site.