Category: Fedora

bookmark_borderFedora KDE Enabling Third Party Repositories

Posted on by marcdeop

As you may know, Fedora KDE 41 was released a couple of weeks ago.

I wanted to talk about a special feature that our colleague @farchord (with support from upstream developer @Nate Graham) has brought to our Fedora KDE distribution:

Enabling Third Party Repositories With A Single Click!

Thanks to the flexibility of plasma-welcome we can offer this feature 🙂

Right after installing Fedora and on first login you will be presented with the Plasma Welcome window:

Before you click on Skip , you can go through the different slides to read about KDE and Fedora and also to decide whether you want to contribute with anonymous metrics or not (note: I personally do not):

Here is where the interesting part comes in, on the next slide:

With a simple click of a button you will enable the most commonly requested by our users Third Party Repositories like rpmfusion! (note: you will be asked for your administrator password)

Once the request is processed, the message will change to:

That’s it! You have successfully enabled Third Party Repositories without needing to modify any file or running any command whatsoever 🙂

Before you do anything with your system and your new configuration, I will strongly recommend to update your system via Plasma Discover :

Proceed with all the update and reboot to get the latest and shiniest from our repositories.

Finally, to verify that the Third Party software is available, you can check:

And that is it!

Enjoy!

This is all thanks to farchord, siosm , aleasto and ngraham‘s work!

bookmark_borderKDE’s 6th Megarelease – RC1 on Fedora Rawhide!

Posted on by marcdeop

After a few days of work the Fedora KDE SIG is proud to announce the availability of KDE 6th Megarelease Release Candidate 1 on Fedora Rawhide!

For those who like bleeding edge, feel free to try it!

We are very excited and looking forward to Fedora 40 + KDE 6 + Wayland only

Note: right now the update is sitting on testing. If you don’t want to wait a few hours until it reaches stable…

You can access it via a dnf repository like:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=1
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
reposdir=/dev/null
retries=20
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=0
assumeyes=1
keepcache=1
install_weak_deps=0
strict=1

# repos

[build]
name=build
baseurl=https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/repos/f40-build-side-81132/5738561/x86_64

bookmark_borderKDE Gear 22.12.2 available on Fedora 37

Posted on by marcdeop

After the announcement upstream, Fedora’s @kde-sig follows up by making KDE Gear 22.12.2 available on Fedora 37.

As per Fedora’s policy, the software will first land on updates-testing and after receiving feedback and karma it will land on the updates repository.

If you want to help, make sure to follow the instructions on the update. You only need to run:

sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2023-17c31eabf7

Feel free to join us at our Matrix room!.

bookmark_borderIntroducing @kdesig/kde-beta COPR

Posted on by marcdeop

We at the @kde-sig are happy to announce we have created a COPR repository which currently contains the KDE Plasma 5.27.0 Beta (aka: 5.26.90).

We intend to use this COPR repository in the future for KDE beta releases so that those Fedora users who want to help the KDE Community can test and report bugs to the KDE developers.

Enabling this COPR repository is very simple:

sudo dnf copr enable @kdesig/kde-beta
sudo dnf update

Your system should now have the Plasma Beta:

Plasma 5.26.90!

For our users using Kinoite, you should check out this blog post by @siosm

That’s all for now.

Feel free to join us at our Matrix room!.