Hi, I wasn’t able to find any guide to install plasma mobile on a raspberry pi 5. After few days, I’ll find a working configuration. Here’s the steps I made to make it works. I’ll be glad if you want to comment and improve the mistake I made.

  • I installed the Raspberry Pi OS Lite 64bits on my sd card.
  • first update : sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade -y
  • I follow the debian instruction on their wiki but I removed phone related package : sudo apt install plasma-mobile plasma-mobile-tweaks plasma-settings spacebar angelfish okular-mobile kscreen greetd
  • now you can try to start the DE with startplasmamobile
  • At reboot the greetd doesn’t start plasma mobile by default. you need to change the config. I find the solution on this arch wiki sudo vi /etc/greetd/config.toml
[default_session]
command = "/usr/lib/plasma-dbus-run-session-if-needed /usr/bin/startplasmamobile"
user = "pi"

[initial_session]
command = "/usr/lib/plasma-dbus-run-session-if-needed /usr/bin/startplasmamobile"
user = "pi"

I had to manually add the script plasma-dbus-run-session-if-needed from plasma-workplace Not sure if the script is needed and why it is not installed even the package is installed.

FIY the screen I use is the 10.1inch HDMI LCD from waveshare.

I still have a lot of issues:

  • I have to off/on the screen when the DE go to sleep.
  • angelfish cannot find internet but firefox works fine even if it’s not the best for touch screen
  • advanced radio player doesn’t appear after the installation from discover. I removed it and add goodvibes
  • When waking up the screen, I have the message: “the screen locker is broken please loginctl unlock-session 1”. maybe it’s linked to my greetd script.