I’m relatively new on Linux and I’ve been using Debian Bookworm, but there’s a dumb question, how can I get the latest updates of KDE? I’ve seen a lot of new features and patches in Plasma 5.27.4, but Debian repositories still uses Plasma 5.27.2 (even on SID)
I don’t know if there’s another repository that I can add to the APT List to get the latest KDE Features
This is probably a better question for a Debian-specific forum. In KDE we don’t have any control over Debian’s release schedule.
Debian is known for shipping older packages to improve stability. It may be worth looking into another distribution, like Debian Unstable or Fedora, if you’d like fresher packages.
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Unfortunately, Debian is in hard freeze atm and thus will be outdated until bookworm releases and unstable ( sid ) opens up again. There are many options out there for Latest and greatest KDE including KDE Neon, but for Debian proper you will have to wait. I have always wanted to create a Neon derivative using Debian as the base, but time has not been on my side. Someday.
Well, you could give https://siduction.org/ a spin. Haven’t looked what exactly they’re packing these days though.
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There used to be a repo maintained by Norbert Preining where you got the (almost) latest KDE, but he moved to arch due to some “differences” with the Debian team. I used to use Debian, but once he stopped doing that, I switched to KDE Neon (testing). So, no, there’s no way (that I know of) to get a “stable Debian with latest KDE”
Debian 12 comes with 5.27. If you wait a little bit, MXlinux Libretto will soon be released. Comes with the 6.1 kernel, plasma 5.27 and sysvinit.
I realize this is an old thread, but I’ll chime in to help others that might come across it in the future. While Debian appears to do a fair job of keeping Plasma current in Sid, they do a very poor just of keeping the rest of KDE/Gear and related updated. I imagine this is the result of the KDE Team/maintainers there being short staffed.
As an update to this thread. I switched from Debian Testing to Fedora because of how slow is Debian to update KDE apps or anything in general.
In my experience, I strongly recommend using Debian only if you need a lot of stability, otherwise, try to use another distro instead.
If you like APT and Debian in general, I suggest you to switch to KDE Neon. It’s based on Ubuntu with updated KDE packages, and Ubuntu is based on Debian with more updated packages.
I am a longtime siduction user but they don’t have the packages for the new KDE version too.
Right now looking at the updates on sid they are just releasing minors for the various packages but on experimental there are packages for 24.05 DDPO: Debian KDE Extras Team -- Debian Quality Assurance
Looking at the situation it is that there are dependencies of those packages that needs an update so it isn’t an easy task to follow all of them.