Chapter 1. First Steps

Chapter 1. First Steps¶

Contents

1.1. Getting Plasma Active

Abstract

This article explains the first steps with Plasma Active, such as how to obtain it and how to prepare a USB-Stick.

At the moment Plasma Active is tested on the following devices:

List of tested devices¶

View Sonic Viewpad 10,
WeTab,
ExoPC and
Lenovo Ideapad 10.

You can see the actual devicelist there: http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/Devices.

1.1. Getting Plasma Active¶

Because Plasma Active is a free project, there is more than one provider for an image. The official reference platform is the Mer-Image, provided by BasysKom. This image i will use in this guide.

1.1.1. Downloading Plasma Active Mer-Version¶

BasysKom provides regular snapshots from Plasma Active as download in: http://share.basyskom.com/plasma-active/wetab.html

Just download the image and save it on any directory.

1.1.2. Creating a USB Stick¶

In the next steps we are placing a Plasma Active Live Image on a USB Stick. You will need:

PC with Linux and internet access,
WeTab (or other Touchpaddevices)
USB-Stick with minimum 2 GB.

Procedure 1.1. Preparing a USB-Stick¶

Now plug in your USB-Stick, and type as root: fdisk -l. Now we find out the device identifier from the USB. In our example it is /dev/sdb.

Now change the directory to that which contains the image:

dd if=/PATH/TO/LIVE-ISO/basyskom-plasma-active-four-wetab-exopc-tablet-mer-release.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M


Please keep in mind that all data on the stick will be lost. Instead of “of=`/dev/sdb`” you must replace it with your found device identifier from fdisk.

After typing sync you can pull out the USB and put it into your touchscreen-device.