Plasma 5.25 for Jammy 22.04 available via PPA (Updated)
We have had many requests to make Plasma 5.25 available in our backports PPA for Jammy Jellyfish 22.04.
Providing backports of new Plasma versions to a LTS release always must be an ‘opt-in’ process, however we are aware that many of our users now are accustomed to adding our backports PPA as a matter of course, so for a LTS release some additional caution is required in what we make available there.
Therefore, at least for the time being, Plasma 5.25 will be available via an additional ‘backports-extra’ PPA, so users can make a positive informed choice to upgrade.
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More on how to do this.
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How to Get KDE Plasma 5.25 in Kubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish
The KDE developers now enabled the popular backports PPA with necessary updates with KDE Plasma 5.25 which you can install now in Kubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish. Here’s how.
KDE Plasma 5.25 released a few days back on June 14, 2022 with some stunning updates. With this release, you get the dynamic accent colour, revamped login avatars, floating panel and many such features which we covered in the feature highlight article.
But, if you are running Kubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish which was released long back on April 2022, you have the KDE Plasma 5.24 with KDE Framework 5.92.
You probably waiting to enjoy the new features in your stable Kubuntu 22.04 release, and now its possible to install it in Kubuntu 22.04 via the famous backports PPA.
And now Joey Sneddon.
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KDE Plasma 5.25 Now Available for 22.04 LTS Users - OMG! Ubuntu!
If you’re running Kubuntu 22.04 LTS you can now upgrade to KDE Plasma 5.25, the latest stable release of the free, open source desktop environment.
The Kubuntu team has made the update available to install from its backports PPA following requests from users.
To be clear: this is not an automatic upgrade. The Kubuntu 22.04 LTS install image ships with KDE Plasma 5.24 by default, and that’s not changing.
Instead, users who want to upgrade to Plasma 5.25 on Jammy can opt-in by adding the Kubuntu backports PPA and a new backports-extra PPA (technically the extra PPA can be used on its own but the team say it’s designed to be used alongside the standard backports PPA).
“Providing backports of new Plasma versions to a LTS release always must be an ‘opt-in’ process, however we are aware that many of our users now are accustomed to adding our backports PPA as a matter of course, so for a LTS release some additional caution is required in what we make available there,” the team say.