This is the fourth time I have installed KDE Plasma 6 on my main laptop. This time it appears I have a working install. While there are still issues. Mostly I cannot adjust the trackpad in the settings. Not sure yet why that is.
The last time I installed it using the quarterly package repo. This time I'm using the latest. To update this edit /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf and make sure the url line reads something like the following:
url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
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 kde
If your system is configured like mine with lightdm or sddm you should be able to just log out then back in.
Last time I installed this I had issues with Dolphin, however with the latest branch this seems to be working fine.
If you need to roll back just run (assuming you call the boot environment kde-upgrade:
beadm activate kde-upgrade
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