KDE Plasma Desktop Environment on Rocky Linux 9

Rocky Linux Help & Support
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Good Evening everyone.

We all got our preferred Desktop Environments which we feel comfortable with. I am a KDE Plasma guy.

Rocky Linux 9 is shipped defaulted with GNOME 40 Desktop Environment.

Clearly, KDE Plasma is not listed under yum grouplist . I have today tried to install KDE Plasma but in vain.

This is what I did .

  1. sudo dnf update
  2. sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb
    ( I couldn’t get over this step, and had to manually enable the crb )

After enabling this , I tried the next step
3. sudo dnf install epel-release

At this point I got so many broken packages with missing dependencies. I can’t list them all.
4. Step four was to now install KDE Plasma
sudo dnf groupinstall -y “KDE Plasma Workspaces”

Would anyone kindly assist me on this . I know I might be missing something very crucial.

Thank you.

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You might get it to work, but KDE is not supported.

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Make sure you have the required repositories enabled:

# dnf install epel-release -y
# dnf repolist
repo id                                                       repo name
appstream                                                     Rocky Linux 9 - AppStream
baseos                                                        Rocky Linux 9 - BaseOS
crb                                                           Rocky Linux 9 - CRB
epel                                                          Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 9 - x86_64
extras                                                        Rocky Linux 9 - Extras

dnf groupinstall should work right after.

As an aside, we did not have issues building our Rocky 9 KDE live images

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@nazunalika surprisingly I did this as well and had so many broken packages reported.

I will share the screenshot in the morning .

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Thank you @gerry666uk . Would you have any suggestion on how to get it to work?

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I’m explaining that even if you get it to work, it could break at any time, becuase upstream won’t be testing against it.

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Okay then.

On Rocky Linux 8.6 the process is very smooth. May be the developers can look into it for RL 9 as well.

Your reply is highly valued .

Thanks

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Well, KDE comes from EPEL, so it’s the EPEL developers responsible for it. RHEL doesn’t include KDE, so therefore it will never be a part of Rocky either by default unless Red Hat include it. Hence why it’s in third party repositories like EPEL.

I just ran the groupinstall on my Rocky 9 zero problems with dependencies, so make sure you have the same repositories enabled as mentioned by @nazunalika and here are mine for confirmation as well:

[root@rocky-desktop ian]# dnf repolist
repo id                              repo name
appstream                            Rocky Linux 9 - AppStream
baseos                               Rocky Linux 9 - BaseOS
crb                                  Rocky Linux 9 - CRB
epel                                 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 9 - x86_64
extras                               Rocky Linux 9 - Extras

maybe you didn’t enable all of them, use the dnf repolist command to verify. Maybe you didn’t enable the extras repository

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Here are the steps clean test with VirtualBox installing minimal RockyLinux 9:
dnf -y update
dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb
dnf install -y epel-release
dnf groupinstall -y “KDE Plasma Workspaces”
dnf --enablerepo=epel group -y install “KDE Plasma Workspaces” “base-x”
systemctl set-default graphical
reboot -f

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Thank you Sir,

Let me try it out on the VM then give you feedback.

Thank you.

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That has redundancies: the ‘epel’ is enabled by default by the epel-release package, and you install KDE Plasma Workspaces group twice.

dnf install epel-release
dnf group install “KDE Plasma Workspaces” “base-x”

You can as well type the ‘y’ when dnf displays what it would do, rather that let transaction auto-proceed with the ‘-y’ parameter.

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Interesting. KDE Plasma works fine on my machines.