Board:   [DoveNet] Unix/Linux
Subject: Re: Kde Plasma Desktop Vs
From:    Nightfox
Date:    Mon Feb 09, 2026 08:30

Subject: Re: Kde Plasma Desktop Vs. Ci
@VIA: DIGDIST
  Re: Re: Kde Plasma Desktop Vs. Ci
  By: phigan to fusion on Mon Feb 09 2026 08:00 am

 >> Mint at all, so nobody maintains anything KDE for Linux Mint. somehow i
 >> doub anyone would have much luck convincing the KUbuntu package maintainers
 >> to fi something just for Linux Mint.

 ph> One way around this is to build from source.. and an easy way of doing
 ph> that is, install the src package for the thing you want to build. The
 ph> package manager will install all of the libraries and other requirements.
 ph> Then get the source from .. the source (KDE's website or github repo or
 ph> whatever) .. and build that following the README.

Could that complicate things on Linux distros that use a package manager?  If you get the source and build it, the package manager would be unaware that that software is installed, so if you upgrade your OS to a newer version, that software might no longer work as there may now be different versions of libraries installed that it's incompatible with, etc.. Also I imagine you could also (perhaps accidentally) install the same packages from the package manager and cause issues, maybe?  And I'm not sure if there would be a clean way to remove it if you wanted to.

Nightfox

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