[Desktop] KDE Plasma 6.6.5 available in Kubuntu Backports

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Above-mentioned updates for our preferred desktop environment are availabe for Kubuntu 26.04 LTS in the Kubuntu Backports PPA.

Thank you very much to the Kubuntu developers for providing this!



Link to the changelog for KDE Plasma 6.6.5:
https://kde.org/announcements/change...6/6.6.4-6.6.5/



The Kubuntu Backports PPA contains "backports of new versions of KDE Platform, Plasma and Applications as well as major KDE apps for Kubuntu."

You can find the instructions how to add the Kubuntu Backports PPA directly on the website (Kubuntu Backports PPA), but here they are again:

Open the Konsole terminal emulator and enter

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
  (and confirm the addition with [Return])
• sudo apt update

After this any future updates that the Kubuntu Backports PPA provide for your Kubuntu 26.04 LTS will be automatically installed when you update your system.

So now you can install the new packages e.g. by entering

• sudo apt full-upgrade

and afterwards

• reboot

As always I strongly recommend that you have prepared some way to revert your system to a previous state if something goes wrong, e.g.:

One can use ppa-purge (installed by default in Kubuntu 26.04 LTS) to get rid of the Kubuntu Backports' packages again.
Or use a Timeshift system backup.
Or use LVM/ext4 with snapshots or btrfs with snapshots as your file system.
Or use a Clonezilla volume backup.
Or …