![]() I hope you found this tutorial helpful in installing KDE desktop on Arch Linux. You may want to explore the essential pacman commands, to know what’s going on with the Arch User Repository and learn more about AUR helpers. Do you remember the password you set up for your sudo user? Use it to login. Power on your system and you should see the KDE login. Once installed, enable the Display Manager and Network Manager services: systemctl enable rviceĪlmost there. You can install of the above using the following command: pacman -S xorg plasma plasma-wayland-session kde-applications ![]() KDE applications group (consists of KDE specific applications including the Dolphin manager and other useful apps).To run KDE desktop, you need the following packages: dimitrios ALL=(ALL) ALL Adding Sudoer in Arch Linux To use nano as the visudo editor, use: EDITOR=nano visudoĪdd the following line like I do in the example, then save and exit. visudo locks the sudoers file, saves edits to a temporary file, and checks that file’s grammar before copying it to /etc/sudoers. It should always be edited with the visudo command. The configuration file for sudo is /etc/sudoers. First, install sudo and a command line text editor like nano: pacman -S sudo nano Now that you have created the user, give it sudo access. You should also set a password for this user. The option -m creates a home directory for the newly created user. You can use something that matches your name. I am creating user named dimitrios (that’s my name). You can use the useradd command for creating a new user. Let’s go! Step 1: Create a sudo user (if you have only root user) If you are using some other desktop environment, steps remain the same. If you just have a bare minimum installation of Arch Linux, you probably are logging into a TTY terminal. If you have installed Arch Linux and using it as root, you should create a new user and give it sudo rights for running commands as root. Please keep in mind that KDE doesn’t allow login as root directly. How to install and setup KDE desktop environment on Arch Linux ![]() Now, not everyone is a GNOME fan and several readers requested that we show them how to configure the KDE desktop on Arch Linux.Īnd thus I created this guide to demonstrate the steps for properly installing and configuring the KDE desktop (also known as KDE Plasma desktop) on Arch Linux. The guide ends with steps mentioning the installation procedure for GNOME desktop. I believe you followed the fantastic It’s FOSS guide on installing Arch Linux. ![]()
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