KAtomic, KBlocks, and KGeography are now available

Feb 5, 2017 22:43 GMT  ·  By

In December last year, we reported on the work done by KDE Community developer Harald Sitter to bundle the official KDE applications as Snaps and make them available for installation on the Ubuntu Snappy Store.

A Snap build of the latest KDE Frameworks 5, a collection of add-on libraries for Qt 5, made its way into the Snappy Store, and can be easily installed on the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system if you execute the "sudo snap install kde-frameworks-5" command in a terminal emulator.

With the KDE Frameworks 5 Snap installed, it looks like you'll now be able to install a bunch of KDE applications on your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system, as Harald Sitter reports on his personal blog. "I am happy to say that we now have some of our KDE Applications in the Ubuntu 16.04 Snap Store."

Here's what KDE apps are currently available in the Ubuntu Snappy Store

Among the KDE apps that you can now install on your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS operating system as Snaps, we can mention the KGeography geography learning tool, KRuler on-screen ruler for measuring pixels on your display, KBruch program for practicing calculation with fractions, and KmPlot plot drawing utility.

It also looks like several KDE games made their way into the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Snappy Store. These include KTuberling simple constructor game, KBlocks classic falling blocks (Tetris-like) game, KAtomic simple educational puzzle game, as well as Kollision, a simple ball dodging game.

To install them, all you have to do is fire up the Ubuntu Software graphical package manager, search for the KDE application you want to install, and install it with a simple click. Of course, you can also install them from the command-line by running a simple command like "sudo snap install kblocks" which will install the KBlocks game.

If you're using the KDE Neon rolling operating system, which is based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, right now you'll have to install these KDE apps from the Ubuntu Snappy Store using the CLI, as the developers are still working hard to implement Snap support in the Plasma Discover package manager.

In the meantime, Harald Sitter is working on getting the manually maintained Snaps to built automatically, and, of course, to bring more KDE apps to the Ubuntu Snappy Store. We'll keep you guys updated as much as we can when more KDE applications are available for installation as Snaps in Ubuntu Linux.