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= FreeBSD KDE Ports =

You can install KDE software (either the KDE4 Software Collection, or KDE  Plasma with KDE Applications) from both packages and ports. It's a lot faster to install from packages, and compiling KDE software will also take a lot of disk space and memory.

== Packages ==

Packages are available from the official FreeBSD package repository.

; Installing KDE4
: The meta-port for KDE4 is called <code>x11/kde4</code>, but there are also dependent ports for the larger components such as <code>x11/kde4-workspace</code>.

; Installing Plasma5 and Applications
: The meta-port for KDE Frameworks 5 is called <code>x11/kf5-frameworks</code>, but each individual framework can be installed separately.
: The meta-port for KDE Plasma5 is called <code>x11/plasma5-plasma</code>, but each individual component can be installed separately.
: There is no KDE Appications meta port. The closest thing is <code>x11/kde-baseapps</code> which pulls in the essentials. Each application can be installed individually.
: There is a fat metaport <code>x11/kde5</code>.

To install KDE packages on supported FreeBSD versions (10.3 and later, and generally x64):
  # pkg install x11/kde4                     # For KDE4
  # pkg install x11/kde5                     # For the Qt5 based KDE experience