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KDE Neon FAQ

"Is it a distro?"

"Not quite, it's a package archive with the latest KDE software on top of a stable base. While we have installable images, unlike full Linux distributions we're only interested in KDE software."

"Is this 'The KDE Distro'?"

"Nope. KDE believes it is important to work with many distributions, as each brings unique value and expertise for their respective users. This is one project out of hundreds from KDE."

"What is the difference between KDE neon and using plain Ubuntu?"

"KDE neon will provide users with more up-to-date packages of Qt and cutting-edge KDE software."

KDE Neon is not like Kubuntu, in their FAQ you can read:

> KDE Neon is a rapidly updated software repository

>  It uses the foundation of the latest Ubuntu LTS (16.04).

> Is this "the KDE distro"? Nope. 

You get the new versions ASAP, Neon is one of the fastest way to get KDE software, not the rest of the software.

> Only when new version of KDE Neon comes out?

There's no KDE Neon version, is Plasma Desktop's rolling release. For the rest you get the regular schedule that depends on repos, flatpak, snap, app image and so on

Neon devs recommend pkcon refresh and then pkcon update (which is what Discover uses):

https://neon.kde.org/faq#command-to-update

Not sure why though.

I used ukuu kernel update utility. Only had good experiences with it. You can install and remove your kernels easily from the GUI.

Also, the newer kernels after 4.15 break Virtualbox from my experience.

There is an official repository for Ubuntu in the VirtualBox website, follow the instructions for the one for 18.04 as that is the base for current KDE Neon.

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-disk-with-Linux-and-Windows

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These instructions cover configuring a NTFS disk containing Steam games, that was previously used in a Windows environment, to work with Proton on Linux. This allows a user to use the same files to play games on both Windows and Linux without needing to reinstall games for each operating system.

Also, from KdeNeon's FAQ :

How do I Update to the Latest Software?

KDE neon does continuous deployment of the latest KDE software which means there are nearly always new versions of our software to update to. We recommend using Plasma Discover's updater which appears in your panel:

If you prefer to use the command line you can use the pkcon command:

pkcon refresh pkcon update

This will install all new packages and uses the same PackageKit code as Plasma Discover.

Some uses of apt do not install new packages which makes it less suitable for KDE neon.

https://neon.kde.org/faq#command-to-update

Recommended: Discover's Updater, or: * pkcon refresh * pkcon update

If you are going to use apt, then apt update && apt full-upgrade is the best choice.

As far as I'm aware, Ubuntu's data collection stuff is built into the installer, designed to send hardware statistics to Canonical.

KDE Neon uses a different installer, so I imagine there's also no data collection going on - and if there is, it'd be going to KDE devs instead of Canonical.

At any rate, KDE Neon is based on Ubuntu 18.04, so here's an article about Ubuntu 18.04's data collection practices:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/05/this-is-the-data-ubuntu-collects-about-your-system

Hey I was having trouble with this too but I think it has more to do with my card being GCN 1.1. Anyways if you still want to try to fix your problem you can edit the file amdgpu-pro-install and find the line where it says "ubuntu" and replace it with "neon". It'll allow you to install it from there. Honestly though if you're only going to do gaming you might want to stick with the open source driver, I'm just doing the AMDGPU-PRO driver for OpenCL. The reason you're getting crap performance with the open source driver right now is because the version that's pre-installed is old as hell. I'd recommend using this PPA because it packages the newest open source driver as it gets developed. If you have any issues with it or want something more stable then go with this one. Let me know if you run into any trouble.

I solved right now. I had to wait two hours for disk cleanup plus two hours to upgrade Windows. And I was trying to use this Etcher but it failed to make a bootable USB twice. Instead, I recommend Rufus.

snap install --edge node --classic right? it seems to work fine except for the message that pops up when you run npm:

npm WARN npm npm does not support Node.js v13.0.0-nightly20190802452b393c1f npm WARN npm You should probably upgrade to a newer version of node as we npm WARN npm can't make any promises that npm will work with this version. npm WARN npm Supported releases of Node.js are the latest release of 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. npm WARN npm You can find the latest version at https://nodejs.org/

Are you seeing it too?

I had the same problem so I moved to the AppImage client. It's not quite the same (monochrome tray icon doesn't work for me) but it seems to work. Might be able to go that route until the client in the repo is fixed.

I really like Flym. Currently it is android-only and won't work with TTRSS, but as it is open sourced on github, I wish someone would port it to support TTRSS.

https://github.com/FredJul/Flym

Calibre as packaged by Ubuntu in 18.04 (which Neon is built on top of) is not compatible with the newer Qt library version that Neon needs in order to give us the latest Plasma.

There are a small number of packages like this that will not work in Neon, so you will need to use a different source. You can get it from the Calibre website, or using flatpak, etc.

https://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux

The version in the repos is quite old, anyway.

you can do pkcon update in the terminal if you are impatient. Or open Discover or just wait and it will pop up letting you know in your taskbar. I'm never used Synaptic to update my system. https://neon.kde.org/faq#command-to-update

In KDE Neon and any Ubuntu derived system, dist-upgrade, or rather the new full-upgrade is the correct method for updating using apt. It does NOT perform an upgrade to a new OS version.

Neon prefers the use of pkcon mainly because of this confusion between the differences in apt's usage between Debian and Ubuntu.

In fact, this is the message you get running apt upgrade:

On KDE neon you should use pkcon update to install updates. If you absolutely must use apt you do have to use dist-upgrade or full-upgrade in place of the upgrade command. https://neon.kde.org/faq#command-to-update

I do agree with the decision to push packagekit cli over apt here as many people not familiar with Ubuntu were not updating using apt properly. This solved that problem, and pkcon can be used on any type of distro packaging system where packagekit is used.

However, using apt is likely better/easier/more familiar for troubleshooting purposes.

The command sudo apt autoremove is safe. It's what I use to remove old kernels. You should be able to continue with your updates once you run that command and remove the kernels that you are no longer using.

Most uses of apt are safe in KDE Neon. You can still use it for installing new packages, should you prefer. It's only when you use it for updating your system that you may run into problems.

The KDE Neon developers explain their reasoning for pkcon in the FAQ:

>Some uses of apt do not install new packages which makes it less suitable for KDE neon.

The longer explanation is that sudo apt upgrade does not necessarily resolve all of the dependencies required to update KDE Neon since it does not remove packages and thus will not install any new packages that conflict with the ones that should be removed. The command sudo apt full-upgrade will upgrade your system properly, but the relative ambiguity of these two commands (if you don't read the manpages) is why the developers would prefer that people just use pkcon.

The KDE Neon FAQ page suggests using pkcon for updating Neon and explains why. Personally, I don't like the lack of some features in pkcon, but I use it as there is no other alternative.

The FAQ recommends

• pkcon refresh
• pkcon update

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Although sudo apt update followed by sudo apt full-upgrade works just as well for debs. I don't know about updating snaps or flatpaks.

If you look at the very bottom of the FAQ on the site you'll see that they are working on an updating to the new LTS and there's no need to do apt dist-upgrade. They recommend using discover and also if you want to check for new updates you can do $pkcon refresh or $pkcon update. Its all in the FAQ https://neon.kde.org/faq

They have a couple of git branch 18.04 isos that appear to be public. https://neon.kde.org/download

I don't know if they're buggy, but personally I would risk it rather than having to upgrade from 16.04.

Yes, it is based on 18.04 currently. You can see using the command lsb_release -a

I have no interest in this tool, so I can't tell how difficult it would be to get running on 18.04 without diving into the sources, but they do mention both a flatpak and snap package for this.

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A quick web search does reveal a PPA, but the snap option provides the option for an 'edge' version if the current one is not working well

You can check Pexels or other stock websites and search for landscape, is not a pack that you can directly download, but you can pick all those you want from hundreds of images.

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https://www.pexels.com/search/landscape/

Same as on any *buntu, really

Install tasksel then:

sudo tasksel install lamp-server

https://www.linode.com/docs/web-servers/lamp/how-to-install-a-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu-18-04/

Take a look at odrive.
It's a multi cloud client.
For Linux there's only the cli, but I managed to get it integrated with Kde.
I'm from mobile, I can share more details later if you like.

sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade -y && sudo apt update && sudo apt --fix-missing install && sudo apt update && sudo apt --fix-broken install && sudo apt update && sudo dpkg --configure -a && sudo apt update && sudo apt -f install && sudo apt update && sudo apt install -f && sudo apt update && sudo apt autoremove && sudo apt update && sudo apt autoclean && sudo update-grub && sudo update-initramfs -c -k all

sudo apt install --reinstall --install-recommends kaddressbook libkf5kaddressbookimportexport5 -y

https://kontact.kde.org/components/kaddressbook.html

not related but you may like to enable/ uncomment canonical partners in sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list and install MS corefonts and codecs/

sudo apt install --reinstall --install-recommends kubuntu-restricted-extras kubuntu-restricted-addons

This will have zero negative impact on your install. Its just qt packaged. Dont install anything else from kubuntu though.