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How to Install KDE Plasma 5.6 in KUbuntu 16.04 via PPA

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The Plasma Desktop 5.6 was finally made into <a href="https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/backports">Kubuntu Backports PPA</a>, two months after its release date, available for upgrade in KUbuntu 16.04 LTS.</div>
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While Ubuntu 16.04 comes with Plasma 5.5, you can now upgrade to the latest Plasma 5.6.4 by following the steps blew one by one.</div>
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Add Kubuntu Backports PPA.</div>
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If you have not yet added the PPA, open terminal emulator, paste the command below and hit run:</div>
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Then update your whole system via your update-manager.</div>
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Or run the commands below one by one in terminal:</div>
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sudo apt full-upgrade</span></span></pre>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Note : </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">To revert the changes, purge the Kubuntu Backports PPA via ppa-purge which also downgrade Plasma Desktop to the stock version in Ubuntu 16.04.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;">sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports</span></span></pre>
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How to Install KDE Plasma 5.6 in KUbuntu 16.04 via PPA

Install KDE Plasma 5.6 in KUbuntu 16.04 via PPA The Plasma Desktop 5.6 was finally made into Kubuntu Backports PPA , two months after it...

How To Install KDE Plasma 5.5 on Ubuntu 15.10 and 14.04

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<u><i><span style="color: red;">KDE Plasma 5.5 on Ubuntu 15.10 & 14.04</span></i></u></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">KDE is an international free software community producing free and libre software like Plasma Desktop, KDE Frameworks and many cross-platform applications designed to run on modern <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Unix" target="_blank">Unix</a>-like and Microsoft Windows systems. The Plasma Desktop is a desktop environment provided as the default work environment on many Linux distributions, such as <b>openSUSE</b>, Mageia, <b>Kubuntu</b>, Manjaro <b><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Linux" target="_blank">Linux </a></b>and also the default desktop environment on PC-BSD, a BSD operating system.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><u>Install KDE Plasma Desktop</u></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>KDE </b>Plasma desktop latest packages are available under <a href="https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ci/+archive/ubuntu/stable" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">kubuntu-ci/stable</a> PPA. Use the following commands to add this PPA to your system and install plasma-desktop package.</span></div>
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</span><span style="color: white;">$ sudo apt-get update
</span><span style="color: lime;">$ sudo apt-get install plasma-desktop</span></span><span style="font-size: 0.9em;"><span style="color: lime;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>KDE plasma</b> is a good desktop environment, but you still don’t like it, then you can revert all changes with following command.</span></div>
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</span><span style="color: white;">$ sudo ppa-purge ppa:</span><span style="color: lime;">kubuntu-ci/stable
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How To Install KDE Plasma 5.5 on Ubuntu 15.10 and 14.04

KDE Plasma 5.5 on Ubuntu 15.10 & 14.04 KDE is an international free software community producing free and libre software like Plasma...