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Pezhman

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Registered: 2022-01-19

Posts: 63

[SOLVED]How to install minimal kde plasma on arch

Hello
I've just installed arch on my main machine and I want to install minimal kde plasma
I used plasma-desktop but it doesn't have any thing even browser dolphin discover konsole or firefox.
even after installing them mannually it is missing some packages and i get some errors(while there are solutions in arch forums)
for example ntfs file system support.
plasma-meta + kde-applications installs a lot of packages.
so what is the best way to install kde without any junk?

Last edited by Pezhman (2022-01-24 10:45:08)

Morn

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Registered: 2012-09-02

Posts: 886

Re: [SOLVED]How to install minimal kde plasma on arch

I would install pkgbrowser from AUR and look through the KDE package groups to decide which KDE applications to install.

E.g. I have currently installed:

$ pacman -Qe -g kde-applications
kde-applications ark
kde-applications dolphin
kde-applications ffmpegthumbs
kde-applications gwenview
kde-applications kcalc
kde-applications kdegraphics-thumbnailers
kde-applications kdesdk-thumbnailers
kde-applications kompare
kde-applications konqueror
kde-applications konsole
kde-applications kwrite
kde-applications okular
kde-applications spectacle

Although I arrived at my "KDE Light" the other way: First I installed all KDE package groups and then used pkgbrowser to find unneeded packages (or groups) for the "pacman -Rs" treatment.

rafaelsoaresbr

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Registered: 2015-09-06

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED]How to install minimal kde plasma on arch

My contribution:

$ pacman -Qqett -g kde-applications
ark
dolphin
ffmpegthumbs
kamoso
kate
kcalc
kdegraphics-thumbnailers
kompare
konsole
ktorrent
okular
spectacle

$ pacman -Qqett -g plasma
bluedevil
breeze-gtk
kde-gtk-config
khotkeys
kinfocenter
kscreen
ksshaskpass
kwallet-pam
plasma-browser-integration
plasma-desktop
plasma-nm
plasma-pa
plasma-systemmonitor
powerdevil
sddm-kcm

Pezhman

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Registered: 2022-01-19

Posts: 63

Re: [SOLVED]How to install minimal kde plasma on arch

Thanks a lot everyone ❤️