Installation

• Download latest .raw http://kdeos.haraldsitter.eu/index.html
• Attach USB drive
• lsblk to find the right /dev/node. e.g. /dev/sda
• sudo dd if=kdeos.raw of=/dev/sda bs=4M
• sudo sync
• reboot into USB stick
• no password on sddm
• run calamares via kickoff/krunner

Updates

Until discover gets support the following needs running

git clone https://invent.kde.org/sitter/kde-linux
cd kde-linux
sudo ./update.sh update

VM

virt-manager

• File -> New VM
• Import existing disk image
• [Forward]
• Select from disk
• Set arch as OS
• [Forward]
• Set resources
• [Forward]
• Customize configuration
• [Finish]
• Config window opens
• Make sure at the bottom it says Firmware: UEFI
• [Add Hardware]
• Add a storage of some reasonable size
• [Finish]
• In the boot options item:
• check VirtIO Disk 2 and move it above 1
• [Apply]
• [Begin installation]

Local Development

In order to speed up local builds, you can create a mkosi.local.conf file in the root of the repository with the following content:

[Content]
Environment=LOCALE_GEN="en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" # replace with your locale`
Environment=MIRRORS_COUNTRY=us # replace with your country code`
Environment=PARALLEL_DOWNLOADS=50 # if your internet connection is fast

# Only uncomment this after you have done a complete build once
#Environment=KDE_BUILDER_ARGS="--no-src --install-only"

Then (assuming you have docker with the BTRFS storage driver) you can run:

./build_docker.sh --incremental