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Kubuntu 15.04 Gets KDE Plasma 5.3.1, How to Install It

The developers are not stopping with Plasma 5.3.1

May 30, 2015 12:23 GMT  ·  By
Kubuntu 15.04
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KDE Plasma 5.3.1 was just announced by the KDE Community a few days ago, and now it has been made available in Kubuntu 15.04 with the help of a single PPA.

Just because KDE Plasma 5.3.1 was released long after the final edition of Kubuntu 15.04 was made available doesn't mean that the users can't take advantage of the newer versions. This is done, like in any other Ubuntu-based system, via a PPA. Even so, the developers still need to put some effort into the porting process.

"Packages for the release of KDE's desktop suite Plasma 5.3.1 are available for Kubuntu 15.04. You can get it from the Kubuntu Backports PPA. Bugs in the packaging should be reported to Kubuntu-ppa on Launchpad," reads the announcement.

Adding the PPA to the system is quite easy. Just enter the following commands into a terminal (you need to be root in order for this to work):

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
We covered the release of KDE Plasma 5.3.1, and we noted that it was full of fixes and improvements that would be very useful to users. You can also download Kubuntu 15.04 right now from Softpedia and give it a spin.