How to Install Latest KDE Plasma on Ubuntu Desktop. By GeeksMint. October 12, 2023. In this guide, we will discuss the different methods for installing KDE Plasma on our existing Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 20.04. Complete Story. Try before Installing. The Ubuntu Studio ISO is a live image, which means you can boot it and use all the default applications without installing it. Just create a bootable USB stick and try it out. Boot from USB Stick. Download the image above. Use software like UNetbootin to It is a Linux distribution developed by KDE, based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. In addition, as always, users of rolling-release Linux distributions, such as Arch Linux, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Void Linux, Manjaro, etc., are expected to be among the first to receive the upgrade to KDE Plasma 5.27 in their distro’s repositories in the coming weeks. Kubuntu 22.04 LTS New Features. Perhaps the most popular Ubuntu-based Linux distribution is the Kubuntu in terms of usability, appearance and stability. Linux Kernel 5.15 LTS powers the Kubuntu 22.04 LTS same as the Ubuntu base. Also, it features the KDE Plasma 5.24.x series, which is the current LTS version of the Plasma desktop. There has been package naming changes. I think that this is the current nucleus of the KDE: kde-baseapps. Description: base applications from the official KDE release (meta-package) This package provides core applications for the KDE 4 desktop. The kde-baseapps is depending: dolphin; kde-baseapps-bin; kdepasswd; kfind; konqueror; plasma Ubuntu Studio uses the same KDE Plasma desktop environment as the official Kubuntu release, and thus, may be affected by some of the same issues. This is also true of the core packages of the mainline Ubuntu release. You can see their release notes here (Kubuntu) and here (Ubuntu). Alien BOB (Eric Hameleers) provides an installable Live image for Plasma 5 which is re-generated at each update of the development tree "slackware64-current" using the liveslak scripts. Two login accounts/passwords are "live/live" and "root/root". Use su or sudo to become root (using the "live" password). Install KDE Desktop Environment, set up accounts and Set Up Shortcuts. run script 2, '2. set-up-ubuntu-kde.py'. After it completes, you can add the shortcut to your start menu by searching “Ubuntu KDE” and clicking “Add to Start”. This shortcut will allow you to access the newly installed DE. The Kubuntu Team is happy to announce that Kubuntu 23.04 has been released, featuring the ‘beautiful’ KDE Plasma 5.27 simple by default, powerful when needed. Codenamed “Lunar Lobster”, Kubuntu 23.04 continues our tradition of giving you Friendly Computing by integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high Kubuntu is easier in this area. It'll offer to install all third party drivers and codecs, etc. on install, so everything multimedia and GPU-related (if on Nvidia) will be mostly taken care of. On Fedora, you're going to need to add the RPM Fusion repo and install the codecs and whatnot from there after installation. ESIIN.