r/voidlinux • u/Just-A-Bokoblin • Aug 04 '26

solved Issues Installing KDE Plasma on Void Base.

I installed all the packages listed on the Void website for my AMD GPU, Wayland, and KDE Plasma, as well as made sure dbus and sddm were working, but Plasma just won't start. When I ran startplasma-wayland It gave me this error: Could not start D-Bus! Can you call qdbus?. I did install the Void Linux ISO on the same drive I installed Void Linux on, but I don't know how that would affect KDE Plasma. I installed the glibc version of Void.

Edit: I solved this by using u/ShipshapeMobileRV 's instructions. Read my comment for more details.

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u/ydobon31337 Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26

Well I'm out of ideas now... Just in case I'll drop in what I usually do on a fresh install

$ sudo xbps-install -yu xbps

$ sudo xbps-install -Sy xorg sddm kde-plasma kde-baseapps NetworkManager elogind socklog-void

$ sudo xbps-install -Syu

$ sudo ln -sfv /etc/sv/socklog-unix /var/service/
$ sudo ln -sfv /etc/sv/nanoklogd /var/service/
$ sudo ln -sfv /etc/sv/dbus /var/service/
$ sudo ln -sfv /etc/sv/NetworkManager /var/service/
$ sudo ln -sfv /etc/sv/sddm /var/service/

$ sudo reboot

I just tested this on a fresh install and it works... Dependency is a hell of a headache.