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FreeBSD KDE Ports

You can install KDE software (either the KDE4 Software Collection, or KDE KDE Plasma with KDE Applications) from both packages and ports. It's a lot faster to install from packages, and compiling KDE software will also take a lot of disk space and memory.

Packages

Packages are available from the official FreeBSD package repository.

Installing KDE4: The meta-port for KDE4 is called x11/kde4, but there are also dependent ports for the larger components such as x11/kde4-workspace.

Installing Plasma5 and Applications: The meta-port for KDE Frameworks 5 is called x11/kf5-frameworks, but each individual framework can be installed separately.; The meta-port for KDE Plasma5 is called x11/plasma5-plasma, but each individual component can be installed separately.; There is no KDE Appications meta port. The closest thing is x11/kde-baseapps which pulls in the essentials. Each application can be installed individually.; There is a fat metaport x11/kde5.

To install KDE packages on supported FreeBSD versions (10.3 and later, and generally x64):

 # pkg install x11/kde4                     # For KDE4
 # pkg install x11/kde5                     # For the Qt5 based KDE experience

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 = FreeBSD KDE Ports =
-You can install KDE software (either the KDE4 Software Collection, or KDE Frameworks 5 -- but not yet KDE Plasma or KDE Applications) from both packages and ports. It's a lot faster to install from packages, and compiling KDE software will also take a lot of disk space and memory.
+You can install KDE software (either the KDE4 Software Collection, or KDE KDE Plasma with KDE Applications) from both packages and ports. It's a lot faster to install from packages, and compiling KDE software will also take a lot of disk space and memory.
 == Packages ==
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 : The meta-port for KDE4 is called <code>x11/kde4</code>, but there are also dependent ports for the larger components such as <code>x11/kde4-workspace</code>.
-; Installing KDE Frameworks 5
+; Installing Plasma5 and Applications
 : The meta-port for KDE Frameworks 5 is called <code>x11/kf5-frameworks</code>, but each individual framework can be installed separately.
+: The meta-port for KDE Plasma5 is called <code>x11/plasma5-plasma</code>, but each individual component can be installed separately.
+: There is no KDE Appications meta port. The closest thing is <code>x11/kde-baseapps</code> which pulls in the essentials. Each application can be installed individually.
+: There is a fat metaport <code>x11/kde5</code>.
 To install KDE packages on supported FreeBSD versions (10.3 and later, and generally x64):
    # pkg install x11/kde4                     # For KDE4
-   # pkg install x11/kf5-frameworks  # For KDE Frameworks 5
+   # pkg install x11/kde5                     # For the Qt5 based KDE experience