Using Plasma Discover on GNOME in Fedora
Iām running GNOME on my Linux desktop these days, and GNOME Software works well enough for finding packages in Fedoraās repository and on Flathub. I like KDEās Discover app too, but I donāt want to install a full copy of KDE Plasma.
So I installed Discover. (I could have used Software for this, but it turns out it would have run into the same problem.)
sudo dnf install plasma-discover
And it seemed to work at firstā¦but I couldnāt look at the details of anything. I ran it from the command line and got this error:
file:///usr/lib64/qt5/qml/org/kde/kirigami.2/PageRow.qml:914: Error: Error while loading page: qrc:/qml/ApplicationPage.qml:15 module āorg.kde.purposeā is not installed
There are a zillion rpms with āpurposeā in the description, and none with ākde-purpose,ā but after a fruitless web search for the error (hereās hoping this page gets picked up soon), I went back to the list and just looked through them. I found the module in the ākf5-purposeā package.
Itās a library, so itās not visible in either desktop app, but itās a single command in a terminal.
sudo dnf install kf5-purpose
Done! Now I can run Discover on Gnome if I want to!
Update: Hereās the bug report I filed on the issue.