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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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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.

postmarketOS

While postmarketOS is tailored for mobile platforms, it also targets x86_64 devices.

Check out and download images here.

Custom images can also be tested in QEMU with the instructions here.

Debian

Plasma Mobile is available in Debian with the plasma-mobile package.

Arch Linux

Plasma Mobile is available on the AUR. Help us convince Arch packagers to make it an official package by voting!

KDE Neon

This image, based on KDE neon, can be tested on non-android intel tablets, PCs and virtual machines. It can be downloaded here.