Install KDE Plasma 5.1.1 in Linux Mint 17 and Ubuntu 14.04, 14.10 based distro [PPA]

We will show you how to Install KDE Plasma 5.1.1 in Kubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Kubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn and Linux Mint 17 Qiana KDE based distro via ppa’s. KDE is an international technology team that creates free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE’s products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development. KDE software is translated into more than 60 languages and is built with ease of use and modern accessibility principles in mind. KDE’s full-featured applications run natively on Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X.

November 11, 2014. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to Plasma 5, versioned 5.1.1. Plasma 5 was released in July with many feature refinements and streamlining the existing codebase of KDE’s popular desktop for developers to work on for the years to come.

Changes in KDE Plasma 5.1.1 :

This release adds a month’s worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:

Limiting indexing word size in Baloo.
Don’t index dots in Baloo, it’s a regular expression character
Breeze: Do not takeout margins from toolbutton before rendering text
Breeze: cleanup tab buttons positioning
Breeze: Fix positioning of cornerwidgets
Notes widget: Make text color white on black note
Clock widget: Fix fuzzy clock saying half past seven when it’s half past six
khotkeys: fix loading configuration
kinfocenter: Set the correct version
kcm-effects: Use Loader for the Video Item
Oxygen: margins and RTL fixes
Plasma Desktop: Validate timezone name before setting
Plasma Desktop: Backport settings made in the component chooser to kdelibs 4 applications
Plasma Desktop: make kdelibs 4 apps react to icon theme change
Plasma Desktop: Cleanup applet configuration scrollbar handling and fix glitching alternatives dialog
Plasma Desktop: fix emptying the trash from the context menu
Plasma Desktop: numberous bugfixes
Plasma Workspace: Remove shutdown option from screen locker

To install KDE Plasma 5.1.1 on Ubuntu 14.04 and Linux Mint 17, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neon/kf5
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install project-neon5-session project-neon5-utils project-neon5-konsole project-neon5-breeze project-neon5-plasma-workspace-wallpapers

How to install KDE Plasma 5 .1.1 on Ubuntu 14.10, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/next
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-plasma5-desktop plasma-workspace-wallpapers

Optional, to remove the changes, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:kubuntu-ppa/next

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2 Responses to “Install KDE Plasma 5.1.1 in Linux Mint 17 and Ubuntu 14.04, 14.10 based distro [PPA]”

rijia November 17, 2021 at 7:34 AM
ppa:neon/kf5 is missing? Do u know a way to install it in Mint 17 Kde ?
Denis Bergeron January 20, 2022 at 2:41 PM
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neon/kf5
Unable to add PPA: 'No JSON object could be decoded'.