KDE Minimal Installation

[Werameli]

Hi guys!

Got a little problem with eos installation recently. I want to install minimal DE with no unnecessary apps to customize it by myself later, but I don’t know which packages should I uncheck in KDE-Desktop section.

Hope you could help me!

[thefrog]

EOS is a minimal install so honestly I don’t believe you need to remove anything. Its already pretty basic. Other than personal preference for Apps there is no need.

[Werameli]

Thanks for the answer! Then I’ll just install without unchecking anything

[pebcak]

depends really how minimal you want to go.

This is the list of packages that gets installed when you choose KDE in EnOS installer.

Personally, if I were to go minimal, I could think of unchecking quite a few of them.
For example, Haruna. I don’t understand why that choice should be made on my behalf.

ark
bluedevil
breeze-gtk
dolphin
dolphin-plugins
ffmpegthumbs
fwupd
gwenview
haruna
kate
kcalc
kde-cli-tools
kde-gtk-config
kdeconnect
kdegraphics-thumbnailers
kdenetwork-filesharing
kdeplasma-addons
kgamma
kimageformats
kinfocenter
kio-admin
kio-extras
kio-fuse
konsole
kscreen
kwallet-pam
kwayland-integration
libappindicator-gtk3
maliit-keyboard
okular
plasma-browser-integration
plasma-desktop
plasma-disks
plasma-firewall
plasma-nm
plasma-pa
plasma-systemmonitor
plasma-workspace
powerdevil
print-manager
sddm-kcm
spectacle
xdg-desktop-portal-kde
xsettingsd
xwaylandvideobridge
eos-plasma-sddm-config
eos-settings-plasma

If you are really interested of having a minimal install, I would recommend installing Arch Linux and add whatever you decide yourself to your installation.

[smokey]

Yes it’s pretty minimal for a KDE environment and this way you will end up with a system that should work as expected.

[smokey]

I forgot about Haruna I would probably remove this for a minimal install as I think vlc is now called in as a dependency

[pebcak]

@smokey

I think vlc is now called in as a dependency

Yes, I guess so. As a dependency of a dependency of some dependency of something

In my opinion, if you want to get a minimal kde install, you would just need plasma-desktop plus sddm on an Arch base install and build it up from there.