Frameworks/Binary Packages

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You can obtain binary packages of KDE Frameworks 5 and Qt 5.2 in many distributions. This page aims to list the available binary packages, but it is not an exhaustive list and there may be new packages available that are not currently listed here.

Kubuntu

Packages for Kubuntu Utopic Utopic (14.10) ships with KDE Frameworks 5 as part of the regular repositories. Plasma 5 packages are no longer available or supported. To remove them and upgrade to Vivid beta, please use the PPA-purge package to remove those PPAs and packages, and then install `kubuntu-desktop` meta-package, and finally:

sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

before initiating:

sudo do-release-upgrade

Live Image of Kubuntu Vivid with Packages from Git The Weekly Live Image, updated every Friday with latest source from Git to run a full system from a USB disk. Based on Kubuntu 15.04, Vivid.

KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 is available in the Vivid development version of Kubuntu, now in beta.

openSUSE

On openSUSE, there are repositories with snapshots of KDE Frameworks 5 and Qt 5.3. You can add repositories in openSUSE through the graphical YaST software repositories module, in Software Repositories and then Add and Specify URL. Enter the URL of the links below.

You can also add repositories through the command line with zypper. Use the following command:

zypper ar -f <URL> <name>

Where <name> should be an alias that is easy to remember.

Version 13.1

• Qt 5.3 URL
• KDE Frameworks 5 URL

Factory

Factory contains required Qt5 version, and also KF5, but if you want both on release day, add the following repos:

• Qt 5.3 URL
• KDE Frameworks 5 URL

Arch Linux

On Arch Linux, packages for KDE Frameworks are available in the official [extra] repository. To install execute the command

# pacman -Syu
# pacman -S kf5 kf5-aids

Fedora

Qt 5 and KF5 packages are available in fedora's core repositories.

AOSC OS2

On Anthon Open Source Community's :Next project distribution, KF5 can be obtained from its "kf5-experimental" repository. To add this repository to your sources.list, execute

echo "deb http://mirror.anthonos.org/os2-repo/os2-experimental/kf5-experimental/ /" >> /etc/apt/sources.list 
apt-get update

• Make sure to run this command with Super User privilege.
• As for quality concern, some git revision packages like "kactivities-frameworks" are not uploaded, they will be rebuilt and uploaded as soon as a Beta release is made public.

Gentoo Linux

KF5 packages are currently in the KDE overlay, and are part of the @kde-frameworks set. For more information please visit the Gentoo wiki

Mageia

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ROSA

Latest stable KDE Frameworks 5 packages for ROSA Desktop Fresh can be installed from the unofficial KDE Backports repository in 1-2 days after release. After some testing these packages are pushed to the official Main repository (but some releases may be skipped).