How to install Plasma Mobile in Archlinux

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How to install Plasma Mobile with the original factory Archlinux from danctnix.

Install Plasma

First off, there is a meta package danctnix/danctnix-pm-ui-meta for plasma-mobile, hoever when installing it I got errors:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
plasma-mobile-settings: /etc/skel/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini exists in filesystem (owned by danctnix-plasma-desktop-settings)
plasma-mobile-settings: /etc/xdg/kwinrc exists in filesystem (owned by danctnix-plasma-desktop-settings)
plasma-mobile-settings: /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/90-powerdevil.hook exists in filesystem (owned by danctnix-plasma-desktop-settings)
plasma-mobile-settings: /usr/share/maliit/keyboard2/devices/plasmamobile.json exists in filesystem (owned by danctnix-plasma-desktop-settings)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
error: could not set install reason for package plasma-mobile-settings (could not find or read package)
-> error installing repo packages

It turns out this comes from the package plasma-mobile-settings. 

So, to install Plama Mobile you install the relevant packages from the meta package without the plasma-mobile-settings.

This is the list that worked for me:

Code:

pacman -S danctnix/plasma-mobile
pacman -S plasma-mobile-nm
pacman -S iio-sensor-proxy
pacman -S plasma-nano
pacman -S danctnix/plasma-mobile-sounds
pacman -S plasma-settings

(the rest is already installed)
Edit: added package plasma-settings. Thanks Frtodd

Log out and  you can choose Plasma Mobile as an option on the logon screen (at the bottom).

Plasma mobile works quite well with the Pinetab2.
Some finetuning would probably help. Especially as the plasma-mobile-settings are not there. It works anyway, though.


Install Mobile Apps

On the Plasma Mobile page is a list of mobile friendly apps.

I have found these helpful:

• kclock (clock)
  
• kweather (weather app)
  
• qmlkonsole (mobile terminal)
  
• PlasmaTube (youtube frontend)
  
• AudioTube (youtube music app)
  
• Vvave (music app)
  
• Fractal (matrix client, works so so with mobile)
  
• NeoChat (matrix client, works so so with mobile)
  
• Edit: Tokodon (Mastodon client)
  
• Edit: Index  (file manager)
  

Edit:
Here is a description of Plasma Mobile Configuration options:
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18457

Edit2:
On first use on you Login Screen (Display manager is sddm) you have to change the Desktop environment to Plasma Mobile