Install KDE with a Package manager?

[Edward78]

I have Manjaro Mate & would like to install KDE to check it out, is this possible? The one I did already will not respond. So I need to start fresh.

[Sauron]

yes

[Cyber Raven]

Yes, that should be fairly simple. I'm not familiar with Manjaro specifically, but looking at the docs here, it should be as simple as

`sudo pacman -Syu ${package name}`. Looking at the Arch Wiki, the package name should just be 'plasma', so try `sudo pacman -Syu plasma`.

 

You may also need to update your display manager to make plasma appear as an option on the login screen, but I can't help you there I'm afraid. Without updating the display manager, you should at least be able to try plasma using another tty (e.g ctrl-shift-f2), logging in on the command prompt and then running the command `/usr/lib/plasma-dbus-run-session-if-needed /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland`.

[Edward78]

47 minutes ago, Cyber Raven said:

Yes, that should be fairly simple. I'm not familiar with Manjaro specifically, but looking at the docs here, it should be as simple as

`sudo pacman -Syu ${package name}`. Looking at the Arch Wiki, the package name should just be 'plasma', so try `sudo pacman -Syu plasma`.

 

You may also need to update your display manager to make plasma appear as an option on the login screen, but I can't help you there I'm afraid. Without updating the display manager, you should at least be able to try plasma using another tty (e.g ctrl-shift-f2), logging in on the command prompt and then running the command `/usr/lib/plasma-dbus-run-session-if-needed /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland`.

I did, I had it, but it was freez9ng conflicting with Mare maybe. If I can get it how I want it, I will delete Mate. Unless that will leave some mess behind.

[Cyber Raven]

4 minutes ago, Edward78 said:

I did, I had it, but it was freez9ng conflicting with Mare maybe. If I can get it how I want it, I will delete Mate. Unless that will leave some mess behind.

It shouldn't have been conflicting with Mate, how were you launching it? Did you install the `plasma-desktop` base package or the `plasma` package group? If the former, try the latter, there might have been some missing packages causing the freezing.

[Edward78]

I used the comands on the Manjaro DE install page. https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Install_Desktop_Environments

[goatedpenguin]

Installing both DEs could be messing up your config and install, try uninstalling your current DE and install plasma then.