Further KDE5 packages
This section did not provide instructions for all of the available packages in the KDE5 Software Compilation. The included packages were selected based on what most people would want to use on a standard desktop computer.
For a full list of available packages, have a look on the KDE5 servers at https://download.kde.org/stable/release-service/21.08.0/src.
Some additional packages worth mentioning are:
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Juk: A lightweight music player.
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Dragon: A video player.
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Kcalc: A scientific calculator.
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Kaccessible: Integration of accessibility utilities.
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Kio-extras: various plugins for urls like man:// or smb://.
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Kwalletmanager: A credentials management application.
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Marble: A global map program.
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A variety (about 40) of KDE games including: kpat, kfourinline, and kmines.
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Note
Some packages will require additional dependencies. To determine what dependencies are needed, run from the top of the source tree:
cmake -Wno-dev -L .
Most of these packages can be built with the standard KDE5 instructions:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KF5_PREFIX \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
-Wno-dev .. &&
make
And as the root user:
make install
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