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Updating

CaptSilver edited this page Jun 9, 2026 · 2 revisions

Updating

AUR

yay -Syu wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin-new-fork

The -new-fork package rebuilds against the latest main each upgrade.

From source

cd wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin
git pull
git submodule update --init --force --recursive
cmake --build build
sudo cmake --install build
systemctl --user restart plasma-plasmashell.service

The scene renderer is pulled in as a Git submodule — git submodule update is what picks up renderer updates. Skipping it leaves you with a stale renderer even after git pull succeeds.

RPM / rpm-ostree

Rebuild the RPM as in Installation → Building an RPM and:

# Standard Fedora
sudo dnf upgrade ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin-qt6-*.rpm

# rpm-ostree (Bazzite, Silverblue, Kinoite)
rpm-ostree install --uninstall=wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin-qt6 ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin-qt6-*.rpm
systemctl reboot

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