KDE Plasma 6 in Kubuntu

[enricobe]

Hello, is there any way to install a Plasma 6 version of Kubuntu? Alpha, Beta, Core, Backports etc versions are fine too.

I can't find any way to have Plasma 6 on Kubuntu

[1fallen]

You would have to build it from source: https://community.kde.org/Get_Involv...c-build#Plasma
So far these OS's have it as an option:
Fedora
KaOS ISO
KaOS Install
KDE Neon Unstable ISO
Nix Flake
openSUSE Krypton

[enricobe]

Thanks, I've seen the KDE webpage reporting the distro, but I would like to test it on the Ubuntu base (Neon Unstable is always broken)
I suppose there is no way to have Plasma 6 on ubuntu at the moment, so I'll go for KaOS

[MAFoElffen]

On building it in Noble Kubuntu, I get this error:

Building ki18n from frameworks 92/142)
           Fetching remote changes to ki18n
           Merging ki18n changes from branch master
           Source update complete for ki18n: no files affected
             Rebuilding because last configure failed
           Preparing build system for ki18n.
           Old build system cleaned, starting new build system.
           Running cmake targeting Kate - Ninja...
           Unable to configure ki18n with KDE Cmake
ki18n didn't build, stopping here

That is where I am stuck at the moment on Noble.

[1fallen]

So close, but no bananas, I thought somewhere it would fail.
I thought that was helpful MAFoElffen, you saved me some time.

[MAFoElffen]

::Whispered In Low Hushes:: --> This morning's OpenSUSE Krypton Daily Build installs with KDE 6.0 Beta 2...

(EDIT: Dang. took forever to install, & pegs 8GB RAM down to a halt.)

[Ganton]

> > KDE Plasma 6 in Kubuntu

> https://community.kde.org/Get_Involv...h_kdesrc-build

I found that "The default configuration of kdesrc-build requires Qt version 6.5. Kubuntu 23.10 has Qt version 6.4.2" on https://community.kde.org/Get_Involv...#Kubuntu_23.10

The same happens nowadays with Noble (https://packages.ubuntu.com/Qt6Core).

Edit:

For having Qt 6.6, there is the option of using kdesrc-build to build KDE Plasma 6 and Qt 6 (https://community.kde.org/Get_Involv...g_kdesrc-build).

[zoopgoop]

On building it in Noble Kubuntu, I get this error:

Building ki18n from frameworks 92/142)
           Fetching remote changes to ki18n
           Merging ki18n changes from branch master
           Source update complete for ki18n: no files affected
             Rebuilding because last configure failed
           Preparing build system for ki18n.
           Old build system cleaned, starting new build system.
           Running cmake targeting Kate - Ninja...
           Unable to configure ki18n with KDE Cmake
ki18n didn't build, stopping here

That is where I am stuck at the moment on Noble.

I had this issue, and it turned out I had my `qt-install-directory` set improperly, so it couldn't find Qt's custom cmake functions.

I installed via the QT Online Installer (https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qt-online-installation.html - you need an account). After running `kde-builder --generate-config`, uncomment the line `qt-install-dir` in `~/.config/kdesrc-buildrc`, and set it like this:

qt-install-dir ~/Qt/6.7.1/gcc_64

(Replace ~/Qt with wherever you installed it - that's the default, and of course if you installed a different version of Qt, pick that). This will let it properly import CMAKE. I also recommend setting your `PKG_CONFIG_PATH` to `~/Qt/6.7.1/gcc_64/pkgconfig`.

Note: I don't recommend using the easy installation from the Qt installer, I was missing several important things (e.g. the Qt 5 compatibility module) - I recommend doing a custom installation and selecting everything under one version.

After this, you mostly just have to play dependency whack-a-mole.

[IanW]

As this is currently the Oracular forum, I should point out that the release schedule says QT6.6.2 was due to be added to 24.10 on May 2nd.
KDE Framework 6 is due to join it on May 16th.