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author Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com>2019-06-13 17:53:17 +0200
committer Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com>2019-06-13 17:53:17 +0200
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Release of KDE 5_19.06 for SlackwareKDE-5_19.065_19.06
- PKGLIST updated with the list of available packages in this release (limited to slackware-current). - README updated.
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KDE5
====
-Here is KDE 5_19.05 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE
-Frameworks 5.58.0, Plasma 5.15.5 and Applications 19.04.1 on top of Qt 5.12.3.
+Here is KDE 5_19.06 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE
+Frameworks 5.59.0, Plasma 5.16.0 and Applications 19.04.2 on top of Qt 5.12.3.
-Upgrading from the previous 5_19.02 is relatively straight-forward.
+Upgrading from the previous 5_19.05 is relatively straight-forward.
-KDE-5_19.05 is meant to be installed on top of Slackware -current.
+KDE-5_19.06 is meant to be installed on top of Slackware -current.
It will *replace* any version of KDE 4 you might have installed!
The Plasma 5 Desktop has gotten rid of its Qt4 legacy. Since the release of
Applications 17.12 there's nothing left which is based on kdelibs4.
What is the NEWS in this batch of updates:
-- Because of the three-month hiatus between releases, there are quite some
- updates to be reported. First, the deps department:
- Qt went up to 5.12.3 and with it come the latest versions of 'libxkbcommon',
- 'qt5-speech', 'qca-qt5', gpgme', 'sip' and 'PyQt5'. The 'qt5-webkit'
- package was recompiled against the new 'qt5'.
- The 'cryfs' package and its dependency 'cryptopp' were updated to their
- most recent releases.
- To support the latest version of kdenlive, a new package 'rttr' was added
- and the 'mlt' package was updated.
-- Frameworks 5.58.0 is an incremental stability release, see:
- https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.58.0.php .
-- Plasma 5.15.5 is the final iteration before we move on to 5.16.
- See https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.15.5.php
-- In plasma-extra I updated kdeconnect-framework.
-- Applications 19.04.1 is a stability and bugfix update for the 19.04 cycle,
- but since I never packaged the .0 release, this is actually the first
- 'ktown for Slackware' release with the new Applications in which we find a
- KDEnlive with 60% of its code re-written from scratch.
- See https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-19.04.1.php and
+- In the 'deps' section, we have one new package:
+ In order to support the latest version of krita, I had to add 'quazip'.
+- Frameworks 5.59.0 is an incremental stability release, see:
+ https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.59.0.php .
+- Plasma 5.16.0 is the the start of a new development cycle for the Deskop
+ part of KDE. For this release, the focus has been to make Plasma smoother,
+ as well as more intuitive and consistent to use.
+ A few highlights: the Networks widget is now faster and more reliable
+ to refresh Wi-Fi networks; the Desktop notification system has been
+ completely rewritten; and there's initial support for using Wayland
+ with proprietary Nvidia drivers.
+ Once I upgrade the Qt5 package to 5.13 (not released yet) I want to
+ create a new 'testing' repository focusing on Wayland support.
+ See https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.16.0.php
+- Applications 19.04.2 is a stability and bugfix update for the 19.04 cycle,
+ see https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-19.04.2.php and
if you want more detail about the 19.04 cycle you should also read
https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-19.04.0.php .
-- In applications-extra I applied many upgrades:
- New versions are now available for 'alkimia', 'digikam', 'falkon',
- 'kdevelop', 'kdev-php', 'kdev-python', 'kmymoney', 'kpmcore', 'krita',
- 'kstars', 'okteta' and 'partitionmanager'.
+- In applications-extra I updated 'krita' and 'kstars'.
Further points of interest:
- If you have a KDE4-based application that needs library support on this
@@ -62,7 +56,7 @@ Further points of interest:
libdmtx, libindicator, libinput, libpwquality, libsass, libwacom,
libxkbcommon, mlt, ninja, noto-font-ttf, noto-cjk-font-ttf, opencv,
pcaudiolib, perl-path-tiny, perl-template-toolkit, polkit-qt5-1,
- python-enum34, python3-random2, qca-qt5, qrencode, qt-gstreamer,
+ python-enum34, python3-random2, quazip, qca-qt5, qrencode, qt-gstreamer,
qt5, qt5-speech, qt5-webkit, qtav, rttr, sassc, sni-qt, speech-dispatcher,
vid.stab and wayland.
As a side note, id3lib libinput libwacom and ninja have become part
@@ -154,6 +148,9 @@ 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_19.05 installed:
+- No further actions are needed.
+
If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_19.02 installed:
- No further actions are needed.
@@ -369,11 +366,23 @@ From within this directory, you run the following commands as root:
# upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new x86_64/deps/telepathy/*.t?z
# upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new x86_64/kde/*/*.t?z
- 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.
+NOTE:
+ If you installed the slackpkg+ extension and configured a 'ktown' repository
+ with the label 'ktown' then the commands to upgrade would become:
+ # slackpkg update
+ # slackpkg install ktown
+ # slackpkg upgrade-all
+ The first command fetches the repository metadata from the remote server(s);
+ The second command installs any new package that was added to the repository;
+ And the third command will upgrade all installed packages, including the
+ 'ktown' packages, to their latest versions in the repositories.
+
+Finally:
+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.
# find /etc/ -name "*.new"
- A graphical (ncurses) tool for processing these "*.new" files is slackpkg:
+A graphical (ncurses) tool for processing these "*.new" files is slackpkg:
# slackpkg new-config
Then reboot your system.
@@ -415,10 +424,6 @@ Wait a long time, and you will find the new packages in /tmp/kde_build .
Note that these packages will already have been installed by kde.SlackBuild !
Reboot your computer and login to a Plasma session.
-NOTE:
-To compile ktouch 18.12 I had to create the following symlink:
- # ln -s /usr/lib64/qt5/bin/qmlcachegen /usr/bin/qmlcachegen
-
==============================================================================
- Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 09-may-2019
+ Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 13-jun-2019