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author | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2019-10-13 19:44:43 +0200 |
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committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2019-10-13 19:44:43 +0200 |
commit | e9ba602e11cac8f0113f6857bb24b08dc48e2abb (patch) | |
tree | 8305f05812962800ce18c41aa3d9cb876c5a0a6c /README.5_19.09 | |
parent | d7dcf6731ac08fe16d99ceb45b00163bc3b35c67 (diff) | |
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Release of KDE 5_19.10 for SlackwareKDE-5_19.105_19.10
- PKGLIST updated with the list of available packages in this release
(limited to slackware-current).
- README updated.
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diff --git a/README.5_19.09 b/README.5_19.09 deleted file mode 100644 index 9ecfa7b..0000000 --- a/README.5_19.09 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,304 +0,0 @@ -KDE5 -==== - -Here is KDE 5_19.09 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE -Frameworks 5.62.0, Plasma 5.16.5 and Applications 19.08.1 on top of Qt 5.13.1. - -Upgrading from the previous 5_19.07 is relatively straight-forward. - -KDE-5_19.09 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: -- Updates in the 'deps' section are as follows: - The qt5 and qt5-speech packages have been updated to 5.13.1, - PyQt5 was updated to 5.13.0 and there's a new official polkit-qt5-1 version - too: 0.113.0. The cryfs package was updated to 0.10.2 and the phonon layer - is now Qt5-only: phonon 4.11.0, phonon-gstreamer 4.10.0, phonon-vlc 0.11.0. - The telepathy deps have two updates: libsignon-glib and - telepathy-acccounts-signon. - Tell me if you actually use KDE Telepathy! I think it is a heroic but doomed - effort to create a voice & video capable IM framework for KDE. I am thinking - of completely removing it from my 'ktown' package set. -- Frameworks 5.62.0 is an incremental stability release, see: - https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.62.0.php -- Plasma 5.16.5 is an incremental bugfix release in the 5.16 cycle of the - desktop part of KDE. See https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.16.5.php -- In plasma-extra I updated kdeconnect-framework, latte-dock and wacomtablet. -- Applications 19.08.1 is a stability and bugfix update for the 19.08 cycle, - see https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-19.08.1.php - Note that I never shipped the 19.08.0 release but its announcement contains - a lot of relevant info: https://kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-19.08.0.php -- In applications-extra I updated krita, krusader and kstars. - -Further points of interest: -- If you have a KDE4-based application that needs library support on this - Plasma 5 desktop, let me know which of the removed packages needs to return - in 'kde/kde4'! -- There are a couple of *runtime* dependencies that I did not add to the - ktown repository, but you may want to consider installing them yourself: - * vlc - will give phonon another backend to select from. - * freerdp: access RDP servers through krdc. - * openconnect: support for Cisco's SSL VPN. - All of these can be found in my regular package repository. -- There's no more need to install any KDE4 package from Slackware. -- Lots of packages in the "deps" department are completely new to Slackware. - Since KDE 5 aka Plasma 5 is built on Qt5 (KDE 4 uses Qt4 as its base) - you'll find many Qt5 related packages. Also, in order for Qt4 and GTK based - applications to dock into the Plasma 5 system tray, more dependencies were - needed. So, apart from updates to regular Slackware packages and the - new telepathy support packages (see below), these are the new ones: - OpenAL, PyQT5, SDL_sound, QScintilla, accountsservice, brotli, cfitsio, - cracklib, cryptopp, cryfs, ddcutil, dotconf, drumstick, dvdauthor, - espeak-ng, flite, freecell-solver, frei0r-plugins, grantlee-qt4, - hack-font-ttf, hyphen, id3lib, lensfun, libappindicator, libburn, - libdbusmenu-gtk, libdbusmenu-qt5, 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, quazip, qca-qt5, qrencode, - qt-gstreamer, qt5, qt5-speech, qt5-webkit, qtav, rttr, sassc, sni-qt, - speech-dispatcher, vid.stab, wayland and woff2. - As a side note, id3lib libinput libwacom and ninja have become part - of Slackware-current. - Technically that makes them redundant in the above listing, however I still - provide older Plasma5 packages for Slackware 14.2 so I left them in. - The phonon and poppler packages were extended so that they now support - Qt5 as well as Qt4. The gpgme package picked up Qt5 support. - Note that the SBo version of 'frei0r-plugins' package is called 'frei0r'. - If you have that SBo package installed, remove it. -- A completely new subset of "deps" packages, contained in their own - "telepathy" subdirectory, needed for KDE Telepathy: - libotr, libnice, farstream, libaccounts-glib, libaccounts-qt5, - signon, signon-plugin-oauth2, signon-ui, libsignon-glib, telegram-qt, - telepathy-glib, telepathy-farstream, telepathy-haze, telepathy-gabble, - telepathy-morse, telepathy-qt5, telepathy-logger, telepathy-logger-qt5, - telepathy-mission-control and telepathy-accounts-signon. -- Telepathy for KDE packages are found in their own subdirectory kde/telepathy . -- KDEI is gone. The localizations are now embedded in each package and - no longer available as separate 'kdei' packages. This is a by design. - You will get all languages installed by default. - -NOTE: -Also explained in more detail below, upgrading to this KDE 5 is non-trivial. -You will have to remove old KDE 4 packages manually. - -NOTE: -If you had installed KDE 4 as your default desktop previously, the removal -of KDE 4 packages will break the symbolic link '/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc'. -An attempt to run 'startx' in a console will fail with a black screen. -After installing Plasma 5 for the first time, you need to run 'xwmconfig' -and select 'xinitrc.plasma' as your desktop session. - -NOTE: -If you install a 32bit program on a 64bit Slackware computer with multilib -and that program needs legacy system tray support (think of Steam for -instance), you will have to grab the 32-bit version of Slackware's -'libdbusmenu-qt' and my ktown-deps package 'sni-qt', and run the -'convertpkg-compat32 -i' command on them to create 'compat32' versions -of these packages. Then install both 'libdbusmenu-qt-compat32' and -'sni-qt-compat32'. Those two are mandatory addons for displaying -system tray icons of 32bit binaries in 64bit multilib Plasma5. - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Install pre-compiled packages: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -In order to install or upgrade KDE 5, follow these steps: - -Make sure you are not running KDE or even X ! -If you are running an X session, log out first to return to the console. -If your computer boots to runlevel 4 (graphical login) you first have to go -back to runlevel 3 (console) after logging out. Press <Ctrl><Alt><F1> to -switch to a console, logon there, and execute the command "init 3" to -switch from runlevel 4 to 3, thereby effectively stopping X. - -If you still have a KDE 4 installed, it must be removed first. No clean -upgrade path can be provided! Do as follows: - -If you have Slackware 14.2 or -current's default KDE 4.14.3 installed: - # removepkg /var/log/packages/*-4.14.3-* - # removepkg amarok - # removepkg kscreen - # removepkg kactivities - # removepkg kde-workspace - # removepkg kdeconnect-kde - # removepkg kdepim - # removepkg kdepimlibs - # removepkg kdev-python - # removepkg kdevelop-php - # removepkg kdevelop-php-docs - # removepkg libkscreen - # removepkg libmm-qt - # removepkg libnm-qt - # removepkg plasma-nm - # removepkg polkit-kde-agent-1 - # removepkg polkit-kde-kcmodules-1 - # removepkg wicd-kde - ... or instead of the above, simply run 'slackpkg remove kde'. - -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_18.07) 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 -paragraph. Note that some of the old KDE package names were obsoleted along -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_19.07 installed: -- No further actions are needed. - -If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_19.06 installed: -- No further actions are needed. - -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. - -If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_19.01 installed: -- No further actions are needed. - -If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_18.12 installed: -- No further actions are needed. - -If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_18.10 installed: -- Upgrade to KDE 5_18.12 - Remove the packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_18.12: - # removepkg kde-wallpapers - -If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_18.09 installed: -- Really? - -Then proceed with installing/upgrading KDE 5 as outlined below. - -NOTE: -The example commands below are for Slackware -current but you can use -these commands for Slackware 14.2 as well; by replacing the /current/ -string with /14.2/ (provided there is a suitable 'ktown' release available -for Slackware 14.2 of course). - -NOTE: -Instead of using the mirror host http://slackware.nl/alien-kde/ (its rsync URI -is rsync://slackware.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/), you could choose the alternative -mirror http://slackware.uk/people/alien-kde/ (its rsync URI is -rsync://slackware.uk/people/alien-kde/) - -NOTE: -If you use 'slackpkg' to automate your upgrades, be sure to blacklist my -custom packages or else slackpkg will always try to replace my packages -with the stock Slackware versions if the package names are identical. -As an example, you can add the following lines to the file -"/etc/slackpkg/blacklist" to prevent this unintentional downgrading to KDE4: - # These three lines will blacklist all SBo, alien and multilib packages: - [0-9]+_SBo - [0-9]+alien - [0-9]+compat32 -If on the other hand you are using the 'slackpkg+' extension for slackpkg -then your "/etc/slackpkg/blacklist" file should *not* contain the above -lines! The slackpkg+ extension enables the use of 3rd-party repositories -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 -Hav rsync://slackware.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/current/latest/ latest/ - -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. - -If you want only the 64-bit packages: - # rsync -Hav --exclude=x86 rsync://slackware.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/current/latest/ latest/ -If you want only the 32-bit packages: - # rsync -Hav --exclude=x86_64 rsync://slackware.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/current/latest/ latest/ - -Assuming you just downloaded the bits you want from the directory tree "latest" -you must now change your current directory to where you found this README -(which is the directory called 'latest'). If you used one of the above "rsync" -commands then you can simply do: - - # cd latest - -From within this directory, you run the following commands as root: - - On Slackware 32-bit: - # upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new x86/deps/*.t?z - # upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new x86/deps/telepathy/*.t?z - # upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new x86/kde/*/*.t?z - - On Slackware 64-bit: - # upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new x86_64/deps/*.t?z - # upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new x86_64/deps/telepathy/*.t?z - # upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new x86_64/kde/*/*.t?z - -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: - # slackpkg new-config - -Then reboot your system. -IF this is the first time you run Plasma5, be aware that Baloo will -tax your CPU fairly heavily for a while as it indexes the content of -the files on your hard disk. After this initial indexing operation finishes, -Ballo will get out of your way and stay there. - -If all you want is to install the packages I created, then you can skip the -remainder of the README which details how to (re)compile the packages from -their sources; it is not required reading material. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Building it all from source: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -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 -Hav rsync://slackware.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/source/latest/ latest/ - -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 -dependencies on Slackware-current is hopefully (have not tested the scripts -'updates.SlackBuild' and 'alldeps.SlackBuild' in a long time) as easy as this: - # cd latest/deps - # ./updates.SlackBuild - # cd - - # cd latest/deps/telepathy - # ./telepathy.SlackBuild - # cd - - -Be prepared to wait a *long* time since this will compile a new Qt5 package -among others. The finished packages will be stored in /tmp and will already -have been installed/upgraded automatically. - -Then if you want to compile the KDE packages on your computer, run: - # cd latest/kde - # ./kde.SlackBuild - -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. - - -============================================================================== - Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 13-sep-2019 |