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Re: Install Hyperbola Plasma

2021-12-01T11:08:00Z

This is excellent work Malsasa. Unfortunately, it would be useful perhaps for a couple months at most. Plasma is gonna be removed from v0.4 which is almost around the corner. Also, the packages in v0.3.1 are a bit old.

We'd love it if you can install different wm s in v0.4, find the most pleasant wm and create 1 tutorial for installation on that
and one with DE lumina.

Thanks a lot, we appreciate the content.

Re: Install Hyperbola Plasma

2021-12-01T02:38:35Z

Wow, that's very cool. Thanks for the link and for sure the article.
Going a bit late for now, but it would be unkind just not to answer. I'll read later through and edit this posting.

Install Hyperbola Plasma

2021-12-01T02:28:36Z

Hello, Hyperbola community!

I am trying to spread Hyperbola to people by authoring my first desktop tutorial. I managed to install Hyperbola with KDE Plasma Desktop on a virtual machine, then documented it as a tutorial on website, and here let me share with you a summary in step by step. I hope this could be a good contribution to Hyperbola community. In this humble tutorial, we will use 'hypermachine' as the hostname.

Goals

- root's username: root
- root's password: hyperman
- normal user: hyperman
- normal user's password: hyperman

Step 1. Install Hyperbola

Follow Hyperbola Installation Guide to have a working minimum system. Welcome to GNU system!

Step 2 Install Xenocara Display server

# useradd -m hyperman
# passwd hyperman
# pacman -S xenocara-server xenocara-xinit
# pacman -S networkmanager 
# rc-update add NetworkManager default

Note: Hyperbola uses OpenRC and is fully free from Systemd thus we use rc-update instead of systemctl here.

Note: Hyperbola uses Xenocara instead of Xorg (also known as X11) and this distinguishes it from Parabola.

Step 3. Install KDE Plasma Desktop

# pacman -S plasma-meta sddm kde-applications
# rc-update add sddm default
# reboot

To this point, you should have a working Hyperbola with Plasma desktop. Congratulations!