Install KDE Plasma on Rocky Linux 10/RHEL10

This article will assume you have minimal installed Rocky Linux 10 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. And for RHEL10, you should have already registered your system.

First we need to enable EPEL

On Rocky Linux 10

# dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb && dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-10.noarch.rpm

On RHEL 10

# subscription-manager repos --enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-10-$(arch)-rpms && dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-10.noarch.rpm

Then install KDE Plasma Workspace

# dnf group install "KDE Plasma Workspaces"

Set systemd default level

# systemctl set-default graphical.target

Now, you should have a fully functional KDE environment. However, as for everyday desktop use, we also need video hardware acceleration support. To achieve this, we will need RPM Fusion. (Assume you have an Intel GPU)

# dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-10.noarch.rpm
# dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-10.noarch.rpm
# dnf install intel-media-driver

After a reboot, the system should boot with SDDM to login.

PS: As Nov 2025, there is a buggy script that prevents icons to be shown correctly. We also need to modify this script. Open /usr/bin/xdg-icon-resource with your favourite editor and go to line 981, remove the ` at the end.

path="$(xdg_realpath "$1")" 2> /dev/null # Normalize path