KDE / homebrew-kde

Homebrew formulas for building KDE software on macOS

Homebrew KDE

Experimental Homebrew tap for KDE Frameworks and Applications on macOS.

To add the this tap to your Homebrew installation:

brew untap kde-mac/kde 2> /dev/null
brew tap kde-mac/kde https://invent.kde.org/packaging/homebrew-kde.git --force-auto-update
"$(brew --repo kde-mac/kde)/tools/do-caveats.sh"

Migration

Currently this tap is in process of migration most of frameworks to homebrew/core, so it's best practice to run "$(brew --repo kde-mac/kde)/tools/do-caveats.sh" in case you are seeing any issue with linking. Sorry for inconvenience.

Installation

Now, the fun begins. You can either install individual frameworks via

brew install kde-mac/kde/kf5-attica

or you can install them all with a provided Brewfile provided in the repo's root directory:

brew bundle --verbose --file "$(brew --repo kde-mac/kde)/Brewfile"

Casks

Some apps are offered in binary form via casks, so if you want to install binary package instead of formula please add --cask flag, e.g:

brew install --cask kde-mac/kde/kdeconnect

Upgrading Casks

Some of casks are set to track latest stable nightly build from KDE's Binary Factory, so you may upgrade them via:

brew upgrade --greedy-latest

Uninstallation

To remove all KDE formulae, run:

"$(brew --repo kde-mac/kde)/tools/uninstall.sh"

Installing HEAD

Currently, installing a formula installs the last released version from tarballs. However, not all frameworks and apps were released as tarballs yet or latest stable release fails to build. If you get an error saying is a head-only formula, that formula can only be installed from latest git and not from released packages. This can be done by passing --HEAD as parameter to brew.

GUI KDE apps aren't available in Spotlight

This is a limitation of Spotlight, it just doesn’t want search in some folders, even a symlink to /Applications doesn’t help. But as workaround you may launch KDE apps from Launchpad. Aforementioned tools/do-caveats.sh script creates symlinks to GUI apps in ~/Applications/KDE, making them available to be picked manually and searchable inside Launchpad. But its search is not as convenient and fast as via Spotlight.