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author Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com>2020-07-31 11:39:20 +0200
committer Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com>2020-07-31 11:39:20 +0200
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Release of KDE 5_20.08 for SlackwareKDE-5_20.08elogind5_20.08
- PKGLIST updated with the list of available packages in this release (limited to slackware-current). - README updated.
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@@ -1,12 +1,26 @@
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.
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
+# BIG FAT NOTICE: #
+# Alien's ktown is changing your Slackware-current system and replaces #
+# ConsoleKit2 with elogind. Read the instructions carefully! In short: #
+# - UPGRADE TO THE LATEST slackware-current first. #
+# - Then, REMOVE the ConsoleKit2 package (if it is still installed). #
+# - Finally, install or upgrade the KDE5 package set. #
+# - Ensure you put any *.new files into their correct locations #
+# (a 'slackpkg new-config' will help). #
+# - Reboot. #
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
+
+This is KDE 5_20.08 for Slackware, consisting of:
+KDE Frameworks 5.72.0, Plasma 5.19.4 and Applications 20.04.3;
+on top of Slackware's Qt 5.15.0.
+
+Upgrading from the previous 5_20.06 should be done with care, but since you
+should already have migrated to elogind, I do not expect anything will break.
+
+KDE-5_20.08 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.
@@ -14,28 +28,41 @@ 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.
+- In May we had the first release on Plasma5 on a PAM-ified Slackware, and
+ in June I went along and replaced ConsoleKit2 with elogind - a requirement
+ to make a KDE Plasma Wayland graphical session work.
+ * *
+ * Note that only one of the two (ConsoleKit2 or elogind) must be installed! *
+ * If you install ktown KDE-5_20.08 you need to remove ConsoleKit2! *
+ * *
+- The 'deps' section got a bit smaller again this month:
+ * pcaudiolib, espeak-ng, hack-fonts-ttf, noto-fonts-ttf, and
+ noto-cjk-fonts-ttf were moved into the actual Slackware distro;
+ * flite has been removed since Pat decided we will go with just espeak-ng;
+ * a new package 'pipewire' was added as a dependency for krfb and
+ xdg-desktop-portal-kde.
+ * The elogind-aware dbus package was upgraded to match the Slackware version.
+ * Finally, qca-qt5 was upgraded and I recompiled mlt (to fix the broken
+ kdenlive) and speech-dispatcher.
+- Frameworks 5.72.0 is an incremental stability release, see also:
+ https://kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.72.0
+ A new 'kdav' source tarball got added but that is actually the same package
+ you'll find in KDEPIM. Next batch, the actual kdav package will be built
+ from Frameworks sources.
+- Plasma 5.19.4 is an increment of the 5.19 cycle to add stability & fix bugs.
+ See https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.19.4 and if you want to
+ read more about the goals for 5.19 you should check out:
+ https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.19.0
+- In plasma-extra I rebuilt sddm-qt5 to install man pages correctly, and
+ upgraded plasma-wayland-protocols and wacomtablet.
+- Applications 20.04.3 is an incremental bug fix release, see also
+ https://kde.org/announcements/releases/2020-07-apps-update/
+- For applications-extra I updated digikam, krita, libktorrent and ktorrent,
+ and skanlite. Note that the size of the digikam source tarball 'blew up'
+ due to the addition of new neural network facial recognition data files,
+ but the actual package 'only' grew from 97 to 108 MB.
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.
@@ -48,13 +75,13 @@ Further points of interest:
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
+ accountsservice, autoconf-archive, cfitsio, cryptopp, cryfs, ddcutil,
+ dotconf, drumstick, dvdauthor, elogind , freecell-solver, frei0r-plugins,
+ grantlee-qt4, lensfun, libappindicator, libburn, libdbusmenu-gtk,
+ libdbusmenu-qt5, libdmtx, libindicator, libsass, md4c, mlt, opencv,
+ 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'.
@@ -70,6 +97,12 @@ 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 this time you removed ConsoleKit2 and installed elogind, be sure to
+reboot your computer before attempting to login. Also be very sure that
+you moved all the *.new files into place before you reboot (the command
+'slackpkg new-config' can help you do that).
+
+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.
@@ -86,6 +119,28 @@ 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.
+NOTE:
+You can start a Plasma Wayland session via SDDM (runlevel 4) by selecting it
+in the session drop-down menu.
+You can start a Plasma Wayland session at the console (runlevel 3) by
+executing the "startkwayland" command.
+
+NOTE:
+Running a Wayland session using the proprietary NVIDIA driver is possible,
+see https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland/Nvidia .
+There are still some quirks & glitches but no showstoppers.
+* Qt5 >= 5.15 is a requirement, luckily we already have that in Slackware.
+* You need to enable modesetting:
+ The output of "cat /sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modeset" should be "Y".
+ If you get a "N", then you need to add the string "nvidia-drm.modeset=1"
+ to the kernel's boot commandline e.g. via the 'append' parameter in
+ (e)lilo.conf or syslinux.cfg, or via the 'linux' parameter of grub.cfg.
+* KWin needs to use EGLStreams for accelerated graphics support:
+ Create a profile script (e.g. /etc/profile.d/kwin.sh), make that script
+ executable and let it contain the single line:
+ export KWIN_DRM_USE_EGL_STREAMS=1
+ (or set this environment variable through any other means that you prefer).
+
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Install pre-compiled packages:
@@ -127,13 +182,30 @@ If you have Slackware 14.2 or -current's default KDE 4.14.3 installed:
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
+(for instance: KDE 5_20.02) 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_20.06 installed:
+- Upgrade to KDE 5_20.08
+ Remove the packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_20.08:
+ # removepkg flite
+ If you do need flite, consider building it from slackbuilds.org.
+
+If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_20.05 installed:
+- UPGRADE TO THE LATEST slackware-current first.
+- Then, REMOVE ConsoleKit2:
+ # removepkg consoleKit2
+- Upgrade to KDE 5_20.06
+- Move the new X session files into place which SDDM uses to start your
+ login-session, but first check that you won't accidentally overwrite
+ any of your customizations:
+ # mv /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsession.new /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsession
+ # mv /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup.new /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup
+
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:
@@ -156,77 +228,9 @@ If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_20.01 installed:
# 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.
+- Really? A full re-install may be wiser.
+
+Proceed with installing/upgrading KDE 5 as outlined below.
NOTE:
Instead of using the mirror host http://slackware.nl/alien-kde/ (its rsync URI
@@ -300,10 +304,12 @@ 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 this is the first time you run Plasma5, and you enable Baloo file indexing,
+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.
+This is why indexing is disabled by default.
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
@@ -321,10 +327,10 @@ If you want the sources for KDE 5, run the following command to download them
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:
+dependencies on Slackware-current is hopefully (have not tested the script
+'alldeps.SlackBuild' in a long time) as easy as this:
# cd sources/deps
- # ./updates.SlackBuild
+ # ./alldeps.SlackBuild
# cd -
The finished packages will be stored in /tmp and will already have been
@@ -340,4 +346,4 @@ Reboot your computer and login to a Plasma session.
==============================================================================
- Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 25-may-2020
+ Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 01-aug-2020