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Yeah tricky numbering perhaps somebody could make deb packages for KDE5 which looks so beautiful (and is considered stable ) because right now I can't find it on internet.
What makes you think that KDE5 is available in Debian? I've checked their packages site and I can't find anything beyond 4.11.11-1 available for Jessie or Sid. Only the kde-plasma-desktop package is version 5:84. All the other KDE packages that I looked at are version 4.11.11-1.
jdk
Distribution: Debian Testing, Stable, Sid and Manjaro, Mageia 3, LMDE
Posts: 2,628
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You don't say what Debian version you are using but you should be able to install the package "kde-plasma-desktop" in Debian 6, 7, testing and Sid.
KDE has been trying for years to rebrand the name KDE to indicate a project that developes soft ware instead of indicating a DE. Not sure why but that is what they want to do.
So, according to the description in Synaptic in my Wheezy install, that package will give you;
Quote:
KDE is the powerful, integrated, and easy-to-use Free Software desktop
platform and suite of applications.
This metapackage pulls in the core modules released with the KDE Software
Compilation including the basic KDE Plasma Desktop, minimal set of basic
applications (browser, file manager, text editor, system settings, panel,
etc.), important libraries and data.
This means simply using synaptic will install it or, better in my view, as root;
Code:
apt-get install kde-plasma-desktop
In Wheezy, Debian 7, the package is version 5.77+deb7u1. 5.84 is the listed version for both testing and sid. Squeeze, Debian 6, lists version 5.66.
You don't say what Debian version you are using but you should be able to install the package "kde-plasma-desktop" in Debian 6, 7, testing and Sid.
KDE has been trying for years to rebrand the name KDE to indicate a project that developes soft ware instead of indicating a DE. Not sure why but that is what they want to do.
So, according to the description in Synaptic in my Wheezy install, that package will give you;
This means simply using synaptic will install it or, better in my view, as root;
Code:
apt-get install kde-plasma-desktop
In Wheezy, Debian 7, the package is version 5.77+deb7u1. 5.84 is the listed version for both testing and sid. Squeeze, Debian 6, lists version 5.66.
IT's still 4 it's just package numbering wrong look dependencies.
Distribution: Debian Wheezy, Jessie, Sid/Experimental, playing with LFS.
Posts: 2,900
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Indeed it is just 4. I think the highest currently available is 4.11 in Sid. Maybe check to see if 5 has made it into New, Incoming, or Experimental. If it is in any of them it would be about 4 weeks away from Sid and then another 2 away from Jessie.
Version 5.84 is restricted to the one package: kde-plasma-desktop. If you take any kde app such as konsole and look in the help menu you see "About {name of app}" and "About KDE". The entry "About KDE" says this:
Quote:
KDE - Be Free!
Platform Version 4.13.3
The item, "About Konsole" says this:
Quote:
Konsole
Version 2.13.1
Using KDE Development Platform 4.13.3
This appears to be the latest version available using normal Debian sources. I find no sign of KDE5.
jdk
The main problem with installing KDE 5 is that it simply doesn't exist. What people normally call KDE is actually a mix of the KDE Frameworks (currently at version 5), KDE Software Collection, or nowadays KDE Applications (currently 4.13) and the KDE Plasma Desktop (currently 5.0).
You would have to backport (or introduce to the development branches) every single one of them to get something that could be called KDE 5.
If you really want to test those packages now, instead of waiting until they arrive in Debian (which possibly may be even after the next freeze period), you better install Arch or a similar bleeding edge distro.
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