Plasma/Packages

Arch Linux

Arch Linux provides packages in the KDE-unstable repository

# pacman -S plasma-next

Kubuntu

On Kubuntu, Project Neon is available as PPAs which offers frequently updated development snapshots of KDE Frameworks. Packages will be installed to /opt/project-neon5 and will not contaminate your normal environment.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:neon/kf5
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install project-neon5-session project-neon5-utils project-neon5-konsole

Releases of KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 are being packaged in the next PPA.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/next
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ci-train-ppa-service/landing-005
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-plasma5-desktop

openSUSE

Packages are provided in KDE:Frameworks5 and KDE:Qt5 repositories, for openSUSE 13.1:

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Qt5/openSUSE_13.1/ Qt5
zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Frameworks5/openSUSE_13.1/ KF5

and openSUSE Factory:

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Frameworks5/openSUSE_Factory/ KF5

For more details see this page.

Source

Source: download.kde.org

Live Images

There are also distributions that provides Live Images for trying Plasma 5, as listed here.