You Can Now Install KDE Plasma 5.11.2 Desktop and Latte Dock on Kubuntu 17.10

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Marius Nestor
Oct 30, 2017

Launched on October 19, 2017, the Kubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) operating system arrived with the KDE Plasma 5.10.5 as default desktop environment, which was accompanied by the older KDE Applications 17.04.3 and KDE Frameworks 5.38.0 software stacks, but not users can update their systems to KDE Plasma 5.11.2 and KDE Frameworks 5.39.0. Those looking to update their Kubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) installations to KDE Plasma 5.11.2 and KDE Frameworks 5.39.0 can do it right now if they install the Kubuntu Backports PPA, which also includes the latest Krita 3.3.1 digital painting app, KIO GDrive for accessing your Google Drive files, and the Latte Dock 0.7.1.

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Marius Nestor

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