If you select the KDE desktop environment, while installing Debian, the installer installs several extra desktop applications. Kmail, Knotes, Korganizer, Kaddressbook, to name just a few. Not all KDE users are interested in these extra desktop applications. However, when attempting to remove them, Debian removes the entire KDE. Luckily, a method exists to install just a minimal version of KDE in Debian. Grab yourself a drink and read on to find out how you can install a minimal KDE on Debian.
- Background
- The wrong way to install a minimal KDE in Debian
- The right way to install a minimal KDE in Debian
- Download the Debian network installation ISO
- Start up the Debian installer
- Tip: disable the root account
- Do not select KDE Plasma
- Manually install a minimal KDE in Debian
- Install additional KDE desktop applications
- Wrap up
- Description
- General information from Debian
- Specification
- Screenshot(s)
- System requirements
- Installation Instructions
- Starting installer in PC (via USB)
- Starting installer in VMware
- Starting installer in VirtualBox
- Last step
- Comments
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- Description
- General information from Debian
- Specification
- Screenshot(s)
- System requirements
- Installation Instructions
- Starting installer in PC (via USB)
- Starting installer in VMware
- Starting installer in VirtualBox
- Last step
- Comments
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Background
When I first got started with Linux, I did a fair amount of distro-hopping before finally settling on Debian. The one thing I haven’t really settled on, is my preferred desktop environment. Most of the time I use either XFCE or Gnome. Recently, I got this itch to give KDE a try again.
After installing Debian with KDE and logging in for the first time, I noticed a lot of extra desktop applications that I have no need for. Take Kmail for example. I expect that Kmail is a great e-mail client, but I personally prefer Thunderbird. No big deal, right? Just remove Kmail and install Thunderbird. Wrong! Look what happens when you attempt to remove Kmail:
A bit of a big screenshot. The gist of it: the Debian package manager intends to remove the entire KDE desktop environment. With other words, you cannot just remove individual KDE software applications. I figured another way must exist, to install just a minimal version of KDE on Debian. So without installing all these other KDE software applications. Luckily, this is possible. This article explains step-by-step how to install such a minimal version of KDE on Debian.
The wrong way to install a minimal KDE in Debian
When you plan on installing the KDE desktop environment, you typically select KDE Plasma during the Debian installation:
- Akregator – RSS/Atom feed aggregator
- Ark – archive utility
- Dragonplayer – simple video player
- Gwenview – image viewer
- Juk – music player
- Kaddressbook – address book
- Kate – powerful text editor
- Kcalc – calculator
- Kde-spectacle – screenshot capture utility
- Kmail – email client
- Knotes – sticky notes
- Kopete – instant messaging
- Korganizer – calender and personal organizer
- Okular – univeral document viewer
- Skanlite – image scanner
All great desktop applications, just all KDE and Qt specific. For that reason not everyone wants these on their Linux system. They might be used to their Gnome and GTK3 based counterparts. However, when you attempt to remove the KDE specific desktop applications, Debian will remove the entire KDE desktop environment. So definitely not the way to go.
The right way to install a minimal KDE in Debian
Download the Debian network installation ISO
To install a minimal version of KDE in Debian, it suffices to install from the small network installation ISO. Go ahead and download the 64-bit PC netinst.iso image from the Debian website:
Once downloaded, create a bootable USB stick with this installation image, for example with Rufus. When installing Debian with a minimal KDE in a VirtualBox virtual machine, connect the ISO file to the emulated optical drive instead.
Start up the Debian installer
Boot your system from the installation image as you would normally do to install Debian. This starts up the Debian installer. Continue with the installer as you normally would, but pause the moment you get to the Software selection page.
Tip: disable the root account
Do not select KDE Plasma
The trick to install a minimal version of KDE in Debian is to NOT select KDE Plasma during the installation on the Software selection page:
Besides not selecting KDE Plasma on the software selection screen, complete the Debian installation as usual. Once the installation completes, boot your Debian system for the first time. You won’t see a fancy graphical login screen, just a simple terminal login:
Manually install a minimal KDE in Debian
sudo apt -y install kde-plasma-desktop plasma-nm
Once the installation completes, issue a system reboot with command:
After the reboot and logging in, Debian presents you with your freshly installed KDE desktop environment:
- Dolphin – file manager
- Kfind – file search utility
- Konsole – terminal program
- Kwrite – basic text editor
- Konqueror – web browser
Install additional KDE desktop applications
After installing the minimal version of KDE in Debian, you are of course free to still install some of the other KDE specific desktop applications. The added benefit of this approach is that you can now actually remove them as well at a later point, without risking the entire KDE desktop environment being uninstalled.
sudo apt -y install ark kate kcalc kde-spectacle okular
Wrap up
Installing the KDE desktop environment in Debian, installs a lot of additional KDE specific desktop applications. If you are like me and not interested in all of these, you’ll probably attempt to simply remove them manually. If you attempt to do so, you are in for a surprise: your entire KDE desktop environment will be removed as well. Not a desirable outcome.
This article presented an alternative solution, where Debian only installs a minimal version of KDE. The trick is to not select KDE Plasma on the Software selection screen of the Debian installer. Once your newly installed Debian version boots up, manually install the packages kde-plasma-desktop plasma-nm from the terminal and reboot. You now have a minimal version of KDE on your freshly installed Debian system.
Of course you can still install some of the extra KDE specific desktop applications, as presented in the last section of this article. Added benefit is that you can afterwards actually remove them, without the unwanted side effect of your entire KDE desktop environment being uninstalled.
I hope you found this article an interesting read. Feel free to contact PragmaticLinux for other topics you would like to see covered in the future.
OS Name — Debian
OS Family — Linux
Developer — Community, The Debian Linux Association
Platform 
— Desktop
Description
Debian 10.6.0 was released on September 26, 2020, it is the sixth update release of Debian 10, preceded by 10.5.0, and was available for desktop / laptop computers and servers. 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x86-64) versions are available, and ten computer architecture ports are officially supported. Compared to previous release, this Debian update adds improvements primarily for security issues, as well as making some adjustments for critical issues.
Debian 10 will be supported for the next 5 years.
You can download the Debian 10.6.0 ISO image file for the AMD64 and i386 computer architectures from the Download section. For other architectures, visit this link.
General information from Debian
Debian is a free and open source Linux operating system designed primarily for desktop / laptop computers and servers. This is one of the first (or oldest) distributions in Linux’s history, and the first version was released in 1993. Debian has over 51,000 software packages (pre-compiled packages) which can be easily installed on the system using commands, or any graphical software. The default installation of Debian on desktop computers comes with many graphical applications (most of them are free and open source) such as Firefox Web Browser, LibreOffice, VLC Media Player, GIMP Image Editor, and Evense Document Viewer. Overall, Debian is made up of basic software programs and utilities.
Specification
Screenshot(s)
System requirements
Minimum for Debian 10 Buster (desktop):
- 1 GHz of processor.
- 550MB MB RAM.
- 10 GB disk space.
Installation Instructions
Starting installer in PC (via USB)
- Download the Debian 10.6.0 Live ISO image file from the download section.
- Install a USB bootable creation software (such as Rufus) on your Windows PC.
- Plug in a USB flash drive (at least 8-16 GB of space) with your PC.
- Open the USB bootable creation software, and select the ISO image file of Debian 10.6.0, and start the process.
- As soon as done, plug the bootable USB into a system where you want to install Debian 10.6.0.
- Restart the computer.
- Press the boot device menu key and select USB to boot first.
- Select USB device and start the Debian 10.6.0 installer.
Starting installer in VMware
- Download the Debian 10.6.0 Live ISO image file from the download section.
- Launch the VMware Player, and start creating a new virtual machine.
- Select the ISO image file of Debian 10.6.0, and use VM configuration according to the system requirements.
- Start the virtual machine and go to the Debian 10.6.0 installer.
Starting installer in VirtualBox
- Download the Debian 10.6.0 Live ISO image file from the download section.
- Launch the Virtualbox application on your computer, and start creating a new virtual machine.
- Select Debian and use VM configuration according to the system requirements.
- Start VM and when it asks to select the Host Drive, then select the downloaded Debian 10.6.0 ISO file in step 1.
Last step
- Select the Live option and press Enter.
- Check the operating system in the live session, and if you are ready to install, simply search ‘install’ and select ‘Install Debian’ installer.
- If you have any problems in the live session, you can also go directly to ‘Graphical Debian Installer’ from the boot menu.
- Choose language, region, keyboard layout, etc.
- Follow the on-screen installation.
- Set the Root Password.
- For clean installation, select ‘Guided — use entire disk’ in the disk partition screen. (Warning — Clean installation will remove all other operating systems installed on the computer)
- Go ahead and choose ‘yes’ when it asks for format the partition.
- Wait while Debian 10 is installed on your computer.
- As soon as the process is complete, restart the system.
- Log in to Debian and enjoy the operating system.
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Арч — школьники для школьников. Много дублирующихся пакетов, заброшеных пакетов, пересекаются некачественно. Шаг влево, шаг вправо к профессиональным вещам в разработке — получаем дефолтные конфиги такого качества, что кочется просто ржать — уровень, просто кинуть дефолтный конфиг в /etc и не подумать о его преднастройке — это норма. Некоторые пакеты — они как бы есть, но зависят от правой ноги в понедельник ментейнера. Какой-нибудь percona server официально не поддерживающийся и все, приплыли, школьник даже не положит systemd файлик, или не прегенерит дефолтные базы, это же arch, все надо делать ручками, могут быть другие системы инициализации. То, что его потом надо обновить? Да, ладно и так сойдет.
И такое на каждом шагу. В debian like ни разу я подобного не видел, все вылизано, сделано для человека в консоли, на конфигах просто учишься, особенно серверных.
А так — да, запустить мессенджер и браузер без разницы где.
Из простых дефолтных вещей, даже поставить opensnitch-ui, не ничего сразу не полетит, крутим гайки и болты.
Отсутствует такая штука как update-alternatives, крайне полезная вещь. Идея арча — скомпилять приложуху и кинуть как попало, лишь бы было. А то, что пакет потом забросить — это запросто. Идея арч — это комьюнити, но оно неуправляемое какое-то, совсем полный бардак. Deb/ubuntu — это другие отношения, скорее от производителя к потребителю. Поэтому пакет от производителя, той же percona, он ну просто совершенно другого качества.
И занимаешься секасом целый день в консоли, чтобы это все полетело, без единой стандартизации, вместо того, чтобы работать давно.
Вчера еще раз попробовал, не, спасибо, день улетел в трубу, но хоть посмеялся, много раз делал рука-лицо. Хотя debian testing тоже бы не рекомендовал — постоянно конфликты со сторонним софтом, тупо ulauncher даже не поставить. А компилять — так себе удовольствие.
Только заморозка пакетной базы, а уж lts или краткосрок, выбрать на вкус.
OS Name — Debian
OS Family — Linux
Developer — Community, The Debian Linux Association
Platform — Desktop
Description
Debian 10.0.0 was released on July 6, 2019, it is the first point release of Debian 10, preceded by 9.9.0, and was available for desktop / laptop computers and servers. 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x86-64) versions are available, and ten computer architecture ports are officially supported.
Compared to previous release, this stable Debian version comes with Linux 4.19, Chromium 73.0, Firefox 60.7, LibreOffice 6.1, Python 3.7.2, Thunderbird 60.7.2, Cinnamon 3.8, GNOME 3.30, KDE Plasma 5.14, LXDE 0.99.2, LXQt 0.14, MATE 1.20, LXQt Desktop Environment Live ISO, GNOME default to using Wayland display server instead of Xorg, AppArmor is installed and enabled by default, Xfce 4.12, Network filtering is based on the nftables framework by default, Secure Boot support for amd64, i386 and arm64 architecture in this release, cups and cups-filters packages are installed by default, and so on.
Debian 10 will be supported for the next 5 years.
You can download the Debian 10.0.0 ISO image file for the AMD64 and i386 computer architectures from the Download section. For other architectures, visit this link.
General information from Debian
Debian is a free and open source Linux operating system designed primarily for desktop / laptop computers and servers. This is one of the first (or oldest) distributions in Linux’s history, and the first version was released in 1993. Debian has over 51,000 software packages (pre-compiled packages) which can be easily installed on the system using commands, or any graphical software. The default installation of Debian on desktop computers comes with many graphical applications (most of them are free and open source) such as Firefox Web Browser, LibreOffice, VLC Media Player, GIMP Image Editor, and Evense Document Viewer. Overall, Debian is made up of basic software programs and utilities.
Specification
Screenshot(s)
System requirements
Minimum for Debian 10 Buster (desktop):
- 1 GHz of processor.
- 550MB MB RAM.
- 10 GB disk space.
Installation Instructions
Starting installer in PC (via USB)
- Download the Debian 10.0 Live ISO image file from the download section.
- Install a USB bootable creation software (such as Rufus) on your Windows PC.
- Plug in a USB flash drive (at least 8-16 GB of space) with your PC.
- Open the USB bootable creation software, and select the ISO image file of Debian 10.0, and start the process.
- As soon as done, plug the bootable USB into a system where you want to install Debian 10.0.
- Restart the computer.
- Press the boot device menu key and select USB to boot first.
- Select USB device and start the Debian 10.0 installer.
Starting installer in VMware
- Download the Debian 10.0 Live ISO image file from the download section.
- Launch the VMware Player, and start creating a new virtual machine.
- Select the ISO image file of Debian 10.0, and use VM configuration according to the system requirements.
- Start the virtual machine and go to the Debian 10.0 installer.
Starting installer in VirtualBox
- Download the Debian 10.0 Live ISO image file from the download section.
- Launch the Virtualbox application on your computer, and start creating a new virtual machine.
- Select Debian and use VM configuration according to the system requirements.
- Start VM and when it asks to select the Host Drive, then select the downloaded Debian 10.0 ISO file in step 1.
Last step
- Select the Live option and press Enter.
- Check the operating system in the live session, and if you are ready to install, simply search ‘install’ and select ‘Install Debian’ installer.
- If you have any problems in the live session, you can also go directly to ‘Graphical Debian Installer’ from the boot menu.
- Choose language, region, keyboard layout, etc.
- Follow the on-screen installation.
- Set the Root Password.
- For clean installation, select ‘Guided — use entire disk’ in the disk partition screen. (Warning — Clean installation will remove all other operating systems installed on the computer)
- Go ahead and choose ‘yes’ when it asks for format the partition.
- Wait while Debian 10 is installed on your computer.
- As soon as the process is complete, restart the system.
- Log in to Debian and enjoy the operating system.
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Для загрузки доступны установочные образы, загрузить которые можно по HTTP, jigdo или BitTorrent. Также сформирован неофициальный установочный образ nonfree, включающий в себя проприетарные прошивки. Для архитектур amd64 и i386 разработаны LiveUSB, доступные в вариантах с GNOME, KDE, LXDE, Xfce, Cinnamon и MATE, а также многоархитектурный DVD, сочетающий пакеты для платформы amd64 с дополнительными пакетами для архитектуры i386.
Перед процедурой миграции с Debian 10 «Buster» следует ознакомиться со следующим документом: https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
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