I would love to use Armbian Build to construct a Debian 12 Bookworm images with KDE Plasma as the windows manager. I note that KDE Plasma isn't an option in the armbian builder. I have no problem building with XFCE or Cinnamon.

Hi

 

KDE Plasma is not an officially supported DE, therefore hidden behind EXPERT=yes switch. 

May work, maybe not. No support for it, just like for any user-built image.

 

Example without interactive menu including all available app groups:

./compile.sh build BOARD=orangepi5-plus BRANCH=vendor BUILD_DESKTOP=yes BUILD_MINIMAL=no DESKTOP_APPGROUPS_SELECTED='browsers chat desktop_tools editors internet multimedia office programming remote_desktop' DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT=kde-plasma DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT_CONFIG_NAME=config_base EXPERT=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=bookworm

 

On 4/25/2025 at 4:09 PM, Robert Pace said:

I have no problem building with XFCE or Cinnamon.

You know one can have multiple DE's installed and select which one to use at login?

sudo tasksel kde-desktop
lets you add KDE Plasma for every Debian based install.

 

Important note is that RK3588 needs a pretty new mainline kernel otherwise forget KDE. With vendor kernel it should be no issue. So if you want to use KDE Plasma, no new image or install is needed. But maybe you only want to build an image and not use it.

I think I figured out the expert=yes switch a few days ago and built a test vendor kernel image. Works splendidly with the exception of an issue with screen not recovering from going to sleep or some such.

 

Thanks for your assistance eselarm and Werner for the sharing of your expertise.