This is the second time I have installed KDE Plasma 6 on my main laptop. While it went better than last time there are still deal breaker issues. Namely dolphin not working and the synaptics touchpad not being recognised.
Firstly make sure your pkg repository is up to date and everything is the latest
sudo pkg update
sudo pkg upgrade
Secondly have a backup plan. In this case create a before boot environment
sudo beadm create kde-upgrade
Do a beadm list to ensure it was created.
Now to installed KDE Plasma 6
sudo pkg install kde6-devel
sudo pkg install plasma6-plasma
And to ensure everything has been installed run the following:
sudo pkg install --glob "plasma6-*"
sudo pkg install --glob "kde6-*"
sudo pkg install --glob "kf6-*"
If your system is configured like mine with lightdm or sddm you should be able to just log out then back in.
Note: if like my machine you cannot get KDE running reliably enough. At the time of writing Dolphin was crashing every
time your tried to run it. If this or some other issue is plaguing you, you can just the run sudo beadm activate kde-upgrade
to return to the state before you started the upgrade.
For further information go to RoboNuggies excellent video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OZtnqK3iMU
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