This is the website for using, installing and building KDE® software on the FreeBSD® operating system. You can find documentation for applications that behave differently on FreeBSD than on Linux®. The installation and compilation instructions are specialized for FreeBSD administrators. In 2018, most of the content of this site migrated to the KDE community wiki. This site continues to operate as a news page and to point the way into the community site.
The KDE® community is an international technology team dedicated to creating a free and user-friendly computing experience, offering an advanced graphical desktop, a wide variety of applications for communication, work, education and entertainment and frameworks for building new applications.
FreeBSD® is an advanced operating system for modern server, desktop, and embedded computer platforms. FreeBSD's code base has undergone over thirty years of continuous development, improvement, and optimization. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley.
The KDE/FreeBSD team hopes this site will be a valuable resource for all who are interested in maintaining the high level of compatibility between FreeBSD and KDE Software (KDE Frameworks 5, KDE Plasma and Applications and Extragear) that has been seen to date. The goal is to facilitate the discussion of patches, finding bugs, suggesting features and hopefully becoming a valuable member of both the KDE and FreeBSD communities.
A full KDE Plasma 5 Session, with KDE Frameworks underneath, Plasma Desktop, and KDE Applications, can be had directly from ports or packages. For details, see the KDE-FreeBSD community wiki.
DigiKam and related ports have been updated in the official ports tree to 4.14.0. This is a huge leap, as we are moving from 4.2.0 (released in August 2014) to 4.14.0 (released in October 2015). Version 4.14.0 is the last KDE4-based release, and 5.0.0 will be based on KDE Frameworks 5.
The regular bugfix release of Plasma 5.6.1 has been added to the unnoficial ports tree in the area51 repository. The plasma5-branch in the repository builds the most modern and up-to-date Plasma shell.
The latest version of digiKam for KDE4 technology, digiKam 4.14, has been added to the unofficial ports tree in area51. The trunk of that repository reflects what is "up next" for merging into the official ports.
Just a day after the release of Plasma 5.6, it has been added to the unofficial ports tree in the area51 repository. The plasma5-branch in the repository builds the most modern and up-to-date Plasma shell. The KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 are now co-installable with KDE4 from official ports, now that the installation of headers has been untangled (since March 16th).
Official ports have been updated with a new structure for KDE4 installation. The header installation location for kdelibs4-based ports has changed to include/kde4 instead of include (which consequently causes several other ports to have their installation paths changed too).
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The Plasma 5.6 beta release has been added to the area51 repository. This means that the plasma5-branch in area51 now builds and installs a beta. Users can Update their plasma5-plasma port from the unnoficial ports tree. Use r12023 for the Plasma 5.5.5 release.
The KDE4 ports in area51 have been updated to KDE4 4.14.9. This does not match an official release, but updates kdelibs to the most recent released versions. Most KDE ports do not update and remain 4.14.3. KDevelop has been updated to the latest version based on KDE4 libraries. Users can update the trunk branch in the unofficial repository to try these newer ports. Work is underway to merge this update with the official ports tree.
Plasma 5.5.5 has been added to the area51 repository, keeping up with the monthly release cycle. Users can Update their plasma5-plasma port from the unnoficial ports tree.
The monthly release of KDE Frameworks has also arrived in area51. Together with the newest KDE Frameworks ports, KDE Applications to 15.12.2 and KDevelop 5.0 has been updated to beta2. All these ports can be found in the unofficial ports tree in the plasma5 branch.
