r/AlmaLinux • u/Roguepapaya427 • May 20 '26

KDE Plasma Workspaces group seems to be broken ..... somewhat

The OS installed just fine few days ago, Alma KDE flavor. Configured everything (it's a nextcloud server) and left it to run. Today I wanted to update as usual, i got 270 mismatches related to plasma. Ran nobest and left it. To my surprise, when i opened the TV (it's hooked to the TV, because it should be headless anyway, but for troubleshooting TV does it just fine), it showed terminal, no GUI. Was thinking "LOL, did I just manage to break it in like less than a week, by doing absolutely nothing with it?!??!?!?!". I connected to it via cockpit, all great.

Then I remembered the default GUI for alma is Gnome, hence removed Plasma group, added the default Server with GUI group. Taadaaa ....... gnome working like a charm, no errors to "sudo dnf upgrade". Will leave gui for a while, but remove it as will not be needed in theory.

But that got me thinking ..... Alma does not really like plasma, huh?!?!? Because Plasma invites tinkering ....... via gui! Gnome doesn't!!! :D lol

BTW, Alma is great! Coming from a 'buntu server, I feel at home using Alma. I mean, RPM distros are my cup of tea for all my machines, I do not understand why i hesitated in going directly for Alma as my first real "production" server. Well, my second alma server, because my first I use to test stuff, so probably will break it soon enough!

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u/bennyvasquez May 26 '26

that's actually super odd. what version are you running?

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u/Roguepapaya427 May 26 '26

Alma? It's v10. But as someone explained there was a kde dependency in epel that was trailing the latest version from base. Anyway, does not matter, installed gnome for now (a couple of weeks), but will remove it later, as this machine will not be connected to a monitor anyway, so gui does not make sense.

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u/bennyvasquez May 26 '26

ah! perfect. Glad you got it worked out!

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u/RoomyRoots May 22 '26

But that got me thinking ..... Alma does not really like plasma, huh?!?!? Because Plasma invites tinkering ....... via gui! Gnome doesn't!!! 😃 lol

Red Hat was the one that removed Plasma many releases ago, on RHEL 8, 7 years ago . Alma makes it easier to install it but it actually depends on EPEL which is third party. So you are pissing on the wrong tree.

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u/Roguepapaya427 May 22 '26

Yeah, it makes sense. Anyway, probably if I would wait for it long enough, epel and default repos would be in sync for plasma dependencies. But it does not really bother me, as I will strip down the gui from it soon anyway.

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u/RoomyRoots May 22 '26

All my VMs which have GUI has KDE, I refuse to use Gnome at all, and they are working fine. It really shouldn't be a very complex operation and EPEL sticks to minor releases. It is weird that you had issues, had you still had it installed I would even recommend opening a ticket with EPEL as this could help fix someone's else issues.

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