Getting Plasma Mobile

Plasma Mobile is available to be installed on various Linux distributions.

Please check the information for each distribution to see if your device is supported.

Distributions for ARM Devices

postmarketOS

PostmarketOS (pmOS), is a Alpine Linux based distribution for mobile devices. View the device list to see the progress for supporting your device.

For devices that do not have prebuilt images, you will need to flash it manually using the pmbootstrap utility. Follow instructions here. Be sure to also check the device's wiki page for more information on what is working.

PostmarketOS also provides a nightly repository that tracks Plasma development, and is used by developers.

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Debian (Mobian)

Debian provides a basic set of packages related to plasma-mobile in its repositories since release 12, codenamed bookworm. The packaging effort is continuing even after the release of bookworm, allowing a broader set of packages to be available.

Thanks to the efforts of the developers of Mobian project (a mobile derivative of Debian), flashable images based on Plasma Mobile are now available!

Instructions to manually install Plasma mobile on existing Debian systems can be found on Debian wiki.

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Arch Linux ARM (Unofficial)

Arch Linux ARM has been ported to the PinePhone and PineTab by the DanctNIX community.

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Manjaro ARM

Manjaro ARM is the Manjaro distribution, but for ARM devices. It is based on Arch Linux ARM, combined with Manjaro tools, themes and infrastructure to make install images for your ARM device.

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Kupfer

Kupfer Linux is an Arch Linux ARM derived distribution aiming to provide tooling that makes it easier for developers to port devices to it.

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Sineware ProLinux

ProLinux is a GNU/Linux distribution with an immutable root filesystem, an A/B updating scheme, Flatpak-first app distribution model, and a unified API surface to interact with the OS.

Plasma 6 development images are currently available, built from git.

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OpenSUSE

openSUSE, formerly SUSE Linux and SuSE Linux Professional, is a Linux distribution sponsored by SUSE Linux GmbH and other companies. Currently openSUSE provides Tumbleweed based Plasma Mobile builds.

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Distributions for x86 Devices

Fedora

Fedora has an official Plasma Mobile spin, with the shell and related applications packaged in their repositories.

Check out and download the spin here.

You can also install the plasma-mobile package on existing installations of Fedora.