KDE Plasma 5.6.4 for Ubuntu Systems. How to install the latest plasma desktop on Ubuntu 16.04. Terminal commands to upgrade or install the latest KDE Plasma 5.6.4 in Ubuntu 16.04 or Kubuntu 16.04 Systems. KDE Plasma 5.6.4 comes with many powerful applications and a supercharged Task Manager (see screenshot below).
Plasma 5.6.4 release adds a month’s worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
- Make sure kcrash is initialized for discover.
- Build Breeze Plymouth and Breeze Grub tars from correct branch
- [digital-clock] Fix display of seconds with certain locales.
Upgrade/Install KDE Plasma 5.6.4
Ubuntu users can either upgrade or install the newly released KDE Plasma 5.6.4. Run the following commands to do so:
Upgrade
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade -y
Install
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
Once installed, please restart the system and login.