I tried CentOS 8 right after its release, as it is one of the systems I have been using for years, on servers, workstations and desktops.
The new CentOS 8 operating system is available in two different ISOs: the well-known CentOS Linux, the traditional, stable RHEL-based operating system, and the CentOS Stream. The new CentOS Stream according to the developers is described as a platform that is between the Fedora distribution and RHEL.
Immediately after the first installation I discovered that the distribution update did not support KDE. So I had to "live" with GNOME which does not offer flexibility in HiDPI (High Dots Per Inch) like the one in KDE.
I tried to install KDE before it was released in the official repos of CentOS 8. The result it was satisfactory but not perfect.
So today I did a fresh installation of CentOS 8 and managed to install KDE Plasma in version 5.18.
Let's see how:
First we need to install the epel repository which contains thousands of packages that do not exist in the CentOS repository.
dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/warm/warm-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm |
Make a dnf update
dnf update |
We are ready for installation
dnf --enablerepo=epel, PowerTools group -y install "KDE Plasma Workspaces" "base-x" |
You can also enable PowerTools with the following command
dnf config-manager --enable PowerTools |
Reboot and in Login select Plasma
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