How to install test versions of Plasma Next

KDE neon

KDE neon has the latest builds of Plasma built continuously from releases, Git stable branches or Git unstable branches.

openSUSE

openSUSE offers snapshots from git master updated frequently as well. Use https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Argon_and_Krypton or https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:KDE_repositories

Gentoo

Gentoo is packaging releases in the official Portage tree, usually a stable version and in addition the latest upstream release in a timely manner (see Packages: kde-plasma/plasma-meta for current status). It also provides beta, current stable branch and master branch ebuilds inside kde overlay. The following command will install a full Plasma desktop, configurable via multiple USE flags, this being Gentoo.

emerge plasma-meta

See the KDE Plasma wiki for detailed installation instructions.

Fedora

Now that Plasma 5 has been released, Fedora packaging only tracks the official Plasma 5 releases, not snapshots. See Plasma/Packages#Fedora for installation instructions.

Arch

Plasma 5 workspace is available through the official repositories.

See the KDE page on the ArchWiki for more information.

From Source

See Get_Involved/development#Plasma.