KDE Plasma 5.2.1 released, Available on (K)ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Debian 8 “jessie”, Debian 7 “wheezy”, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, OpenSUSE 13.2, OpenSUSE 13.1 and Arch Linux
 
KDE Plasma (formerly K Desktop Environment and KDE Software Compilation and KDE Plasma Workspace and Applications) is an open source project comprised of numerous packages, libraries and applications designed to provide a modern graphical desktop environment for Linux and UNIX-like workstations.

What’s new in KDE Plasma 5.2.1:

• Don’t turn off the screen or suspend the computer when watching videos in a web browser
• Fix Powerdevil from using full CPU
• Show the correct prompt for a fingerprint reader swipe
• Show correct connection name in Plasma Network Manager
• Remove kdelibs4support code in many modules
• Fix crash when switching to/from Breeze widget style
• In KScreen fix crash when multiple EDID requests for the same output are enqueued
• In KScreen fix visual representation of output rotation
• In Oxygen style improved rendering of checkbox menu item’s contrast pixel, especially when selected using Strong highlight.
• In Plasma Desktop improve rubber band feel and consistency with Dolphin.
• In Plasma Desktop use smooth transformation for scaling down the user picture
• When setting color scheme information for KDElibs 4, don’t read from KF5 kdeglobals
• Baloo KCM: Show proper icons (porting bug)
• Full 5.2.1 changelog 

It combines ease-of-use, superior graphical design and powerful functionality with the unique features and architecture of the Linux operating system. It’s comprised of the KDE Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications components.

Additionally, it contains extra add-on for the panel and desktop, a download manager, an instant messenger, an addressbook, a document viewer, a multimedia layer called Phonon (similar to GStreamer on GNOME), and accessibility functionality, such as a powerful text-to-speech system.

Comes pre-loaded with apps for daily tasks

Users will find at least one application for each common task, including emailing, web browsing, news reading, painting, image viewing, video and music playback, and many more.

It also includes a collection of basic utilities, such as a calculator or archive manager, various scientific and educational applications, packages that contain extra themes, icons, wallpapers, window decorations and screensavers, some system administration tools, bindings for well known programming languages, and many games.

Install/Update and Upgrade KDE Plasma 5.2.1 on (K)ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Debian 8 “jessie”, Debian 7 “wheezy”, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, OpenSUSE 13.2, OpenSUSE 13.1 and Arch Linux :

to install KDE Plasma 5.2.1 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2, Debian 8 “jessie”, Debian 7 “wheezy”, Debian 6 “squeeze”, Kali linux 1.0.9, Kali Linux 1.0.8 (and old version 1.0.7, 1.0.6, 1.0.5), KNOPPIX, Kanotix, Astra Linux, Blankon Linux 9.0 suroboyo,  Blankon Linux 8.0 rote , Blankon Linux 10.0 tambora (upcoming) and old version 7.0, Univention Corporate Server and other debian derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

$ sudo apt-get build-dep qtbase5-dev
$ sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev libxslt-dev libxml2-dev shared-mime-info oxygen-icon-theme libgif-dev libvlc-dev libvlccore-dev doxygen gperf bzr libxapian-dev fontforge libgcrypt20-dev libattr1-dev network-manager-dev libgtk-3-dev xsltproc xserver-xorg-dev xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-dev libpwquality-dev modemmanager-dev libxcb-keysyms1-dev libepoxy-dev libpolkit-agent-1-dev libnm-util-dev libnm-glib-dev libegl-mesa-dev libxcb-xkb-dev

   
Install on OpenSUSE 13.2, OpenSUSE 13.1 : 

All the necessary dependencies:

$ sudo zypper si -d libqt5-qtbase
$ sudo zypper in libbz2-devel libxslt-devel libxml2-devel shared-mime-info oxygen-icon-theme giflib-devel vlc-devel doxygen gstreamer-0_10-devel gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-devel docbook-xml-slides docbook-xsl-stylesheets xcb-util-keysyms-devel perl-JSON boost-devel libxcb-devel libXrender-devel xcb-util-wm-devel xcb-util-devel xcb-util-image-devel gettext-tools
$ sudo zypper in gtk3-devel # for kde-gtk-config
$ sudo zypper in grantlee5 # for kdevplatform
$ sudo zypper in libkdcraw-devel liblcms2-devel # for gwenview
# optional for kdeplasma-addons: libibus >=1.4.2 (see http://software.opensuse.org/package/libibus-1_0-5)

   
Install on Fedora 21 and Fedora 20 :

All the dependencies used for building frameworks can be installed by running:

$ sudo yum-builddep qt phonon-backend-vlc phonon-backend-gstreamer
$ sudo yum install gcc-c++ ruby doxygen git bzr flex bison gperf socat boost-devel bzip2-devel libxslt-devel libxml2-devel shared-mime-info oxygen-icon-theme giflib-devel xcb-util-keysyms-devel perl-JSON perl-Pod-Usage “*xcb*-devel” perl-XML-Parser NetworkManager-glib-devel xapian-core-devel libxkbcommon-devel libxkbcommon-x11-devel  systemd-devel libwayland-cursor-devel libwayland-server-devel libepoxy-devel gtk3-devel sane-backends-devel libcanberra-devel libusb-devel libxkbfile-devel fontforge-devel libical-devel gpgme-devel cyrus-sasl-devel openldap-devel

Install on Arch Linux: 

All the dependencies used for building frameworks can be installed by running:

$ sudo pacman -Sy phonon-qt5 qt5-webkit qt5-script qt5-svg qt5-tools qt5-x11extras enchant jasper openexr libutempter docbook-xsl shared-mime-info giflib libxss upower udisks2 bzr git doxygen perl-json perl-libwww
$ <your_AUR_helper> kf5-akonadi-git

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