Plasmoids Will Not Install

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#1

Hi,

I’ve just put a fresh install of 13.1 on my desktop. I’m using an ATI HD6570 graphics card and an i5. On KDE desktop, which I installed with default settings, I can select to “Download New Plasma Widgets”. I’ve found a ton that look great, such as EG-SysMon-QC. I clicked install, and it said it installed, but it isn’t available to add as the preinstalled widgets were.

I found the file it downloaded, and tried to install it manually, to which I was informed that the installation failed. (I’ve tried a few other widgets as well, but this one has 20k downloads).

I then went to terminal, and ran the command plasmapkg -i 114505-EG-SysMon-QC.skz, which yields the output:

andrew@worksuse:/tmp/kde-andrew> plasmapkg -i 114504-EG-SysMon-QC.skz plasmapkg(14338)/libplasma Plasma::PackageStructurePrivate::createPackageMetadata: No metadata file in the package, expected it at: "/tmp/kde-andrew/plasmapkgHQX0Bd//metadata.desktop" 
plasmapkg(14338)/libplasma Plasma::Package::installPackage: No metadata file in package "/tmp/kde-andrew/114504-EG-SysMon-QC.skz" "/tmp/kde-andrew/plasmapkge21Ift/metadata.desktop" 
Installation of /tmp/kde-andrew/114504-EG-SysMon-QC.skz failed.

I tried renaming the package with a .plasmoid extension to no avail, and spent a good 40 minutes googling.

Does anyone know how to fix this? Thank you for your help!
-Andrew

#2

Well, this is no plasmoid, but a Superkaramba theme, that’s why it has the suffix .skz.

According to the first comment on http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/EG-SysMon-QC?content=114504&PHPSESSID=e5af you should be able to install it with:

plasmapkg --type=superkaramba -i 114504-EG-SysMon-QC.skz

And you need to have superkaramba installed as well obviously.

I haven’t tried it myself though, or superkaramba at all.

#3

Thank you for your help! So after installing Superkaramba (which I had never heard of - again, thanks!) I still had an issue. Apparently the widget needs to be opened in Superkaramba first. Now it works!

https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/SuperKaramba/FAQ#How_to_run_SuperKaramba_themes_inside_Plasma