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Annorax

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From: MA, USA

Registered: 2012-01-16

Posts: 51

What is in a minimal KDE install?

Hi all,

I love the philosophy of Arch in keeping things simple. I also like KDE and am trying to install as few packages as possible. I know to do a minimal KDE install, I do this:

pacman -S kdebase kde-l10n-yourlanguagehere phonon-vlc

My question is: what does this minimal install include? I don't need lots of games and screensaves, but things like Kate, Konsole, Dolphin, Konqueror, System Settings, archiver, file diff, universal file viewer (Okular I think), etc... are very useful. I also like the visual effects, like fading and what not. So what does the base include and what do I need to install to get the things above I want? A quick Google search and I found this:

konqueror konsole kate kdiff3 kde-misc/konq-plugins kde-base/dolphin kde-base/okular

But what about the themes and visual effects?

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: What is in a minimal KDE install?

How about running this command and finding for yourself?

[karol@black ~]$ pacman -S kdebase kde-l10n-yourlanguagehere phonon-vlc
:: There are 11 members in group kdebase:
:: Repository extra
   1) kde-wallpapers  2) kdebase-dolphin  3) kdebase-kdepasswd  4) kdebase-kdialog
   5) kdebase-keditbookmarks  6) kdebase-kfind  7) kdebase-konq-plugins
   8) kdebase-konqueror  9) kdebase-konsole  10) kdebase-kwrite  11) kdebase-plasma

Enter a selection (default=all): 

There's no kde-l10n-yourlanguagehere package, you have to pick one for your your language.

Last edited by karol (2012-01-17 15:26:21)