{"id":9796,"date":"2020-02-12T16:11:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T16:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9796"},"modified":"2020-02-12T16:11:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T16:11:36","slug":"plasma-5-18-lts-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/02\/plasma-5-18-lts-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Plasma 5.18 LTS Released! How to Install in KUbuntu 19.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/kde-icon2.jpg\" alt=\"KDE Plasma 5.16\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5897\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KDE Plasma desktop 5.18 LTS was released a day ago. Now it&#8217;s available to install it in (K)Ubuntu 19.10 via PPA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kde.org\/announcements\/plasma-5.18.0\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Plasma 5.18<\/a> is an LTS (Long Term Support) release that will be updated and maintained by KDE contributors for the next two years. It features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>New Emoji Selector<\/b> (press Windows key + the peroid (.))<\/li>\n<li><b>New Global Edit mode<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Better support for GTK applications using client-side decorations.<\/li>\n<li>Audio Volume System widget improvement.<\/li>\n<li>Optional User Feedback settings (disabled by default).<\/li>\n<li>Redesigned the Application Style settings.<\/li>\n<li>Fractional scaling improvement on X11<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/plasma-globalthemes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/plasma-globalthemes.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/plasma-globalthemes-450x254.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Plasma 5.18 in (K)Ubuntu 19.10:<\/h4>\n<p>Open terminal either by pressing <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard or by searching for &#8216;terminal&#8217; from application menu. When it opens, do:<\/p>\n<p><b>1. Add <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~kubuntu-ppa\/+archive\/ubuntu\/backports\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kubuntu Backports PPA<\/a>:<\/b><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa\/backports<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kubuntuppa-eaon-600x119.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"119\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kubuntuppa-eaon-600x119.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kubuntuppa-eaon-450x89.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kubuntuppa-eaon.jpg 753w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2. Install Plasma 5.18 in Kubuntu 19.10:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Either install all system update via Update Manager, or run command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade<\/pre>\n<p><b>3. For non-Kubuntu user:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Run command to install Plasma desktop:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update && sudo apt install plasma-desktop<\/pre>\n<p>or install full KDE desktop environment via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update && sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop<\/pre>\n<h4>Uninstall:<\/h4>\n<p>You can purge the Kubuntu Backports PPA, which also downgrade Plasma desktop to the stock version (5.16.5) in Ubuntu 19.10 repository.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:kubuntu-ppa\/backports<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KDE Plasma desktop 5.18 LTS was released a day ago. Now it&#8217;s available to install it in (K)Ubuntu 19.10 via PPA. Plasma 5.18 is an LTS (Long Term Support) release that will be updated and maintained by KDE contributors for the next two years. It features: New Emoji Selector (press Windows key + the peroid [&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":[1162],"class_list":["post-9796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-kde-plasma-5"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9796","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=9796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}