Install KDE Plasma Desktop Environment on Armbian
- Log into Armbian
- Launch a terminal window and run the following commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt clean
sudo apt install kde-plasma-desktop kde-window-manager plasma-nm -y --no-install-recommends
sudo reboot now
- After the system reboots, there should now be an option to log into the kde desktop environment
- To set kde-plasma as the default for all users, edit the lightdm configuration file and change the user-session value from xfce to kde-plasma
sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/22-armbian-autologin.conf
user-session=kde-plasma
- Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to 22-armbian-autologin.conf
- Reboot again to verify kde-plasma is now the default desktop environment