{"id":7513,"date":"2018-02-14T15:47:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T15:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7513"},"modified":"2018-02-14T15:47:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T15:47:14","slug":"plasma-5-12-1-released-with-numerous-bug-fixes-ppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/02\/plasma-5-12-1-released-with-numerous-bug-fixes-ppa\/","title":{"rendered":"Plasma 5.12.1 Released with Numerous Bug-Fixes (PPA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/kde-icon2.jpg\" alt=\"KDE Plasma 5.10\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5897\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first bug-fix release for KDE Plasma 5.12 LTS was released a day ago. And it can be installed in (K)Ubuntu 17.10 via PPA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kde.org\/announcements\/plasma-5.12.1.php\" target=\"_blank\">Plasma 5.12.1<\/a> adds a one week&#8217;s worth of new translations and fixes from KDE&#8217;s contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>System Settings: Fix crash when searching.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed mouse settings module crashing on Wayland.<\/li>\n<li>Show a beautiful disabled icon for updates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/plasma-5.12-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/plasma-5.12-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/plasma-5.12-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/plasma-5.12-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/plasma-5.12.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Plasma 5.12.1 in (K)Ubuntu 17.10:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~kubuntu-ppa\/+archive\/ubuntu\/backports\" target=\"_blank\">Kubuntu backports PPA<\/a> has just built the packages for (K)ubuntu 17.10.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for &#8220;Terminal&#8221; from start menu. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa\/backports<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type in your password when it prompts and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/kubuntu-backports-ppa-600x91.jpg\" alt=\"kubuntu backports ppa\" width=\"600\" height=\"91\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/kubuntu-backports-ppa-600x91.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/kubuntu-backports-ppa-400x61.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/kubuntu-backports-ppa.jpg 744w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then upgrade your system to get the latest Plasma Desktop via either Update Manager or command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade<\/pre>\n<p>After the upgrade process has completed, and assuming everything went well, reboot your computer.<\/p>\n<p><i>For non-Kubuntu user, you may first install the <code>kubuntu-desktop<\/code> package either from Ubuntu Software or by running below command before doing the upgrade.<\/i><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update && sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop<\/pre>\n<p><b>How to Uninstall:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To undo the changes and restore to the stock version of Plasma Desktop in your main Ubuntu repository, purge the PPA via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:kubuntu-ppa\/backports<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first bug-fix release for KDE Plasma 5.12 LTS was released a day ago. And it can be installed in (K)Ubuntu 17.10 via PPA. Plasma 5.12.1 adds a one week&#8217;s worth of new translations and fixes from KDE&#8217;s contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include: System Settings: Fix crash when searching. Fixed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[807,1524],"class_list":["post-7513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-kde","tag-plasma-5-12"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}