To install plasmoid unpack archive, go to the directory where this INSTALL file is and execute commands: mkdir build cd build cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` make -j 2 sudo make install kquitapp plasma-desktop && sleep 2 && plasma-desktop Replace the "2" with the number of cores your computer has to speed up the compile process (the runtime speed of the compiled applet is unaffected by this). On some installations the last line has to be this instead: kquitapp plasma && sleep 2 && plasma After that plasmoid should show up in add widgets dialog.