I have problems installing KDE on a freshly installed Parrot 6.2:
#sudo apt install parrot-desktop-kde
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
plasma-widgets-addons : Depends: qml-module-qtwebengine but it is not installable
Depends: libqt5webengine5 (>= 5.15.0~) but it is not installable
Recommends: plasma-systemmonitor (>= 4:5.27.5~) but 5.27.5-2 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
How can I fix this so I can install KDE?
#uname -a
Linux parrot 6.10.11-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.10.11-1parrot1 (2024-10-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Install parrot version 6.1 (don’t update parrot at this point, even if it asks) then install parrot-desktop-kde and only then, after your preferred desktop is installed, update your system and you will still be on parrot version 6.2 at the end.
Parrot is based on Debian rolling, so it means that version 6.2 doesn’t yet have a corresponding up to date kde desktop version available in the repo. If you don’t want to install earlier version etc, then you will have to wait for the parrot repo to be updated.
You could also just install kde rather than parrot kde, but I’d imagine the parrot kde has been themed to go with the general look of the OS and vanilla kde may well not look ‘correct’. To find out whats available, just type;