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author Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com>2020-07-31 11:39:20 +0200
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-KDE5
-====
-
-Here is KDE 5_20.05 for Slackware, consisting of KDE Frameworks 5.70.0,
-Plasma 5.18.5 and Applications 20.04.1 on top of Slackware's Qt 5.13.2.
-
-Upgrading from the previous 5_20.04 is relatively straight-forward.
-
-KDE-5_20.05 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.
-Slackware-current has begun its slow adoptation of the Plasma5 dependencies.
-Most importantly, QT5 and its dependencies are already part of Slackware.
-
-What is the NEWS in this batch of updates:
-- This is the first formal release with PAM support, now that PAM is
- an integral part of Slackware.
-- In 'deps' I added the package libqalculate which enables interactive
- graph plotting capability in krunner, and recompiled speech-dispatcher
- to properly install the info files.
-- Frameworks 5.70.0 is an incremental stability release, see also:
- https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.70.0.php
-- Plasma 5.18.5 is the final incremental release of the 5.18 Long Term Support
- cycle before we move on to 5.19.
- See https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.18.5.php
-- In plasma-extra I rebuilt sddm-qt5 to give it some updated PAM configs.
- Now, root can login too, yay!
-- Applications 20.04.1 is an incremental bug fix release, see also
- https://kde.org/announcements/releases/2020-05-apps-update/
-- For applications-extra, I rebuilt krita against the newer boost lbraries,
- and updated calligra, kdevelop, kdev-php, kdev-python, kstars and okteta.
- I also added a new package, kid3, which is an audio file tagger.
-
-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. Apart from updates to regular Slackware packages the new ones are:
- accountsservice, cfitsio, cryptopp, cryfs, ddcutil, dotconf, drumstick,
- dvdauthor, espeak-ng, flite, freecell-solver, frei0r-plugins, grantlee-qt4,
- hack-font-ttf, id3lib, lensfun, libappindicator, libburn, libdbusmenu-gtk,
- libdbusmenu-qt5, libdmtx, libindicator, libsass, md4c, mlt, noto-font-ttf,
- noto-cjk-font-ttf, opencv, pcaudiolib, perl-path-tiny, perl-template-toolkit,
- polkit-qt5-1, python3-random2, quazip, qca-qt5, qrencode, qtav, rttr, sassc,
- sni-qt, speech-dispatcher, and vid.stab
- 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.
- Several 'deps' packages which used to be listed here, have already been
- absorbed into Slackware. Let's hope the rest takes the same road soon.
-- 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.
-
-
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-Install pre-compiled packages:
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-
-
-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_19.11) 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_20.04 installed:
-- Upgrade to KDE 5_20.05
- Remove the packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_20.05:
- # removepkg python-enum34
-
-If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_20.03 installed:
-- Upgrade to KDE 5_20.04
- Remove the packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_20.04:
- # removepkg kdeconnect-framework
-
-If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_20.02 installed:
-- Upgrade to KDE 5_20.03
- Remove the packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_20.03:
- # removepkg OpenAL
- # removepkg SDL_sound
-
-If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_20.01 installed:
-- Upgrade to KDE 5_20.02
- Remove the packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_20.02:
- # removepkg polkit-kde-kcmodules-framework
-
-If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_19.12 installed:
-- No further actions are needed.
-
-If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_19.11 installed:
-- Upgrade to KDE 5_19.12
- Remove the packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_19.12:
- # removepkg qt-gstreamer
-
-If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_19.10 installed:
-- Upgrade to KDE 5_19.11
- Remove the packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_19.11:
- # removepkg qt5-speech
-
-If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_19.09 installed:
-- Upgrade to KDE 5_19.10
- Remove the packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_19.10:
- # removepkg kcalcore
- # removepkg farstream \
- libaccounts-glib \
- libaccounts-qt5 \
- libnice \
- libotr \
- libsignon-glib \
- signon \
- signon-plugin-oauth2 \
- signon-ui \
- telegram-qt \
- telepathy-accounts-signon \
- telepathy-farstream \
- telepathy-gabble \
- telepathy-glib \
- telepathy-haze \
- telepathy-logger \
- telepathy-logger-qt5 \
- telepathy-mission-control \
- telepathy-morse \
- telepathy-qt5
- # removepkg kaccounts-integration \
- kaccounts-providers \
- ktp-accounts-kcm \
- ktp-approver \
- ktp-auth-handler \
- ktp-call-ui \
- ktp-common-internals \
- ktp-contact-list \
- ktp-contact-runner \
- ktp-desktop-applets \
- ktp-filetransfer-handler \
- ktp-kded-module \
- ktp-send-file \
- ktp-text-ui \
- signon-kwallet-extension
-
-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:
-- Really?
-
-Then proceed with installing/upgrading KDE 5 as outlined below.
-
-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/) which is faster for some people.
-
-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/kde/*/*.t?z
-
- On Slackware 64-bit:
- # upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new x86_64/deps/*.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,
-(could take several hours) Baloo 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.
-
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-Building it all from source:
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-
-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/ sources/
-
-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 sources/deps
- # ./updates.SlackBuild
- # cd -
-
-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 sources/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 / 25-may-2020