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diff --git a/README.5_17.09 b/README.5_17.10 index 2256575..a0a9845 100644 --- a/README.5_17.09 +++ b/README.5_17.10 @@ -1,39 +1,38 @@ KDE5 ==== -Here is KDE 5_17.09 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.38.0, -Plasma 5.10.5 and Applications 17.08.1 on top of Qt 5.9.1. +Here is KDE 5_17.10 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.39.0, +Plasma 5.11.0 and Applications 17.08.2 on top of Qt 5.9.2. -Upgrading from the previous 5_17.07 is straight-forward (there was no 5_17.08). +Upgrading from the previous 5_17.09 is straight-forward. -KDE-5_17.09 is meant to be installed on top of Slackware -current. +KDE-5_17.10 is meant to be installed on top of Slackware -current. It will *replace* any version of KDE 4 you might have installed! Plasma 5 has mostly gotten rid of its Qt4 legacy. Applications 17.12 will no longer ship anything based on kdelibs4. What is the NEWS in this batch of updates: -- The deps section has many updates; OpenAL, PyQt5, cfitsio, frei0r-plugins, - libxkbcommon, lmdb, mlt, poppler, qt5, qt5-webkit, sip and wayland. - In particular, qt5 was upgraded to 5.9.1. - Also two new packages found their way in: id3lib (new dependency for kwave, - now that MP3 support has been enabled) and ddcutil (a new dependency for - bluedevil). -- Plasma was updated to 5.10.5 bugfix release, see - https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.10.5.php . And if you want to - know more about what's new in Plasma 5.10, read it on - https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.10.0.php +- A few updates in the deps section. Most importantly, qt5 was upgraded + to 5.9.2. Two packages were recompiled: ddcutil and gpgme. +- Plasma was updated to 5.11.0, see + https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.11.0.php . I compiled plasma5-nm against openconnect so that it picks up support for it. However I did not add openconnect to the 'deps' section, you need to install it separately if you need it. -- Frameworks 5.38.0 contains one new framework: kirigami, see - https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.38.0.php -- Applications 17.08.1 is the first stability update for KDE Applications + New to Plasma 5.11 is the Vault. It needs an encryption backend (cryfs or + encfs) at runtime but I did not add these to the 'deps'. I might create + packages for those in my regular repository however. + Plasma 5.11 has more improvements, among others it comes with a new design + for systemsettings. +- Frameworks 5.39.0 contains one new framework: qqc2-desktop-style, see + https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.39.0.php +- Applications 17.08.2 is a stability update for KDE Applications 17.08 (where the following applications are finally also KF5 based: kmag, kmousetool, kgoldrunner, kigo, konquest, kreversi, ksnakeduel, kspaceduel, ksudoku, kubrick, lskat, and umbrello). - See https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-17.08.1.php . -- In applications-extra I updated digikam, ktorrent, partitionmanager and - krita; and rebuilt calligra. + See https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-17.08.2.php . +- In applications-extra I updated kpmcore, partitionmanager, krita and + the kdevelop suite (now finally including kdev-python). Further points of interest: - There are a couple of *runtime* dependencies that I did not add to the @@ -148,7 +147,7 @@ If you have Slackware 14.2 or -current's default KDE 4.14.3 installed: ..or instead of the above, simply '# slackpkg remove kde' and de-select the packages you want to keep (amarok, etc). -Alternativly, in case you are already using an older release of my KDE 5 +Alternatively, in case you are already using an older release of my KDE 5 packages, you need to look up that particular release in the list right below (for instance: KDE 5_16.08) and then apply the actions shown for that KDE 5 release *and* all more recent releases, i.e. work your way back up to this @@ -157,6 +156,9 @@ the way, they were split up, renamed or integrated and that is the reason for some of the 'removepkg' lines you'll see below. Here we go: +If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_17.09 installed: +- No further actions are needed. + If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_17.07 installed: - No further actions are needed. @@ -267,16 +269,15 @@ with slackpkg and then Plasma5 package upgrades will be handled properly. To make it easy for you, here is a one-line command that downloads the whole '5' directory (excluding the sources), with 32-bit and 64-bit packages. - # rsync -av rsync://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/current/5/ 5/ + # rsync -Hav rsync://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/current/5/ 5/ Or else, if you want to download packages for just one of the two supported -architectures, you would run one of the following commands instead (note that -there is a dot at the end of these commands!). +architectures, you would run one of the following commands instead. If you want only the 64-bit packages: - # rsync -av --exclude=x86 rsync://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/current/5/ 5/ + # rsync -Hav --exclude=x86 rsync://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/current/5/ 5/ If you want only the 32-bit packages: - # rsync -av --exclude=x86_64 rsync://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/current/5/ 5/ + # rsync -Hav --exclude=x86_64 rsync://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/current/5/ 5/ Assuming you just downloaded the bits you want from the directory tree "5", you must now change your current directory to where you found this README @@ -310,6 +311,11 @@ From within this directory, you run the following commands as root: in the next command: # upgradepkg --install-new x86_64/kdei/kde-l10n-XX-*.t?z + Note that these separate language packs contain only the localizations for + kdelibs4 based applications. All KDE Frameworks 5 based programs include + localizations in the packages themselves (meaning that you will get all + languages installed always). + Check if any ".new" configuration files have been left behind by the upgradepkg commands. Compare them to their originals and decide if you need to use them. @@ -331,7 +337,7 @@ Sources and scripts are separated from the packages in my 'ktown' repository. If you want the sources for KDE 5, run the following command to download them (downloading from a mirror will usually be much faster): - # rsync -av rsync://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/source/5/ 5/ + # rsync -Hav rsync://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/source/5/ 5/ There are a lot of 'dependencies' for KDE 5 which you'll have to compile and install before attempting to compile KDE 5. Compiling and installing these @@ -356,4 +362,4 @@ Note that these packages will already have been installed by KDE.SlackBuild ! Reboot your computer and login to a Plasma session. ============================================================================== - Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 11-sep-2017 + Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 13-oct-2017 |