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diff --git a/README.5_15.04 b/README.5_15.04 deleted file mode 100644 index 9340541..0000000 --- a/README.5_15.04 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,260 +0,0 @@ -KDE5 -==== - -This is KDE 5_15.04 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.9.0, -Plasma 5.3.0 and Applications 15.04.0. -This is meant only to be installed on top of Slackware -current and it will -*replace* any version of KDE 4 you migh thave installed! - -Plasma 5 is the next generation of KDE's desktop workspace. -Plasma 5 improves support for high-DPI displays and comes with a "converged -shell", i.e. one Plasma codebase for different target devices. Plasma 5 uses -a new fully hardware-accelerated OpenGL(ES) graphics stack. Plasma 5 is built -using Qt 5 and Frameworks 5. -And with the Breeze themed artwork and its own Oxygen font, this desktop looks -clean and modern. - -New & changed since my KDE 5_15.03 release: -- kde/frameworks packages were updated to 5.9.0. One new Framework was added: - + ModemManagerQt: a Qt wrapper for ModemManager API, this used to be - libmm-qt5 in the plasma directory. - See also https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.9.0.php -- kde/plasma packages were updated to 5.3.0. This is new feature release, - see also https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.3.0.php - Note that I did not compile the new Plasma Mediacenter tech-preview. -- kde/applications packages were updated to 15.04.0. This is a bugfix release, - see also https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-15.04.0.php - Note that I did not compile the new KDEnlive and KDE Telepathy. They need - a lot of attention before I can build them and it was more important to me - to have a new release of KDE 5 out as fast as possible, that works with - the latest slackware-current. - If you are curious and want to try yourself, start by reading: - https://community.kde.org/KTp/Setting_up_KAccounts -- kde/kde4, new versions of kdelibs, kdepim* -- kde/kde4-extragear is completely emptied - you should use the packages from - slackware-current (calligra, k3b, kaudiocreator, kplayer, kwebkitpart, - oxygen-gtk2, oxygen-gtk3, kdevplatform, kdevelop-pg-qt, kdevelop, - kdev-python, kdevelop-php, kdevelop-php-docs, skanlite, kio-mtp, - libktorrent, ktorrent, partitionmanager). -- deps directory has three new packages (PyQt5, cfitsio, grantlee-qt5) - to allow the new KF5 ports kstars and rocs to compile and since lots of - applications can use PyQt5; updates for PyQt, qt5 and sip; and the rest has - been recompiled just to be sure they are compatible with slackware-current. - -Further points of interest that are unchanged since the previous releases: -- katepart4 was added so that kdevelop works again -- konsolepart4 was added to be able to use an embedded konsole in dolphin -- sddm-theme-breeze was removed, the theme is now part of plasma-workspace -- Lots of packages in the 'deps' department which are completely new to - Slackware. Since KDE 5 is built on Qt5 (KDE 4 had 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, these are the - new ones: - LibRaw, OpenAL, akonadi-qt5, eigen3, gst1-plugins-base, gst1-plugins-good, - gstreamer1, json-glib, libappindicator, libdbusmenu-gtk, libdbusmenu-qt5, - libepoxy, libfakekey, libindicator, orc, polkit-qt5-1, qca-qt5, qt-gstreamer, - qt-gstreamer1, qt5, sni-qt, wayland and xapian-core. -- Note for users of multilib Slackware64 and also using Skype: you will have to - grab the 32-bit version of sni-qt and run 'convertpkg-compat32' on it, - or else Skype won't be able to dock its icon in the systray. -- A bit sneakily, I built phonon-vlc for you. You will also need a VLC package - to be able to use this package though. -- Several source tarballs in Plasma 5.2.0 have not been compiled to Slackware - packages: libbluedevil and bluedevil (they need BlueZ 5 which is not part of - Slackware), muon (a debian/ubuntu package manager), libkface (needs opencv - which I was not willing to add as a dependency). -- One dependency which you'll probably find curious, is wayland. It is required - in order to *compile* KWin's X11 driver, but it is apparently not needed at - *runtime*. Nevertheless, I left the package in, just in case you want or need - to recompile kwin (actually, it does not seem required any longer, but that - issue will be revisited on next Plasma update). -- Graphical login: KDM has been replaced with SDDM. Slackware-current supports - it already. Select "Plasma" from the SDDM session dropdown. - Alternatively, if you prefer good old runlevel 3, you can type (at your own - user account's command prompt): - $ xwmconfig - ... and select "xinitrc.plasma" as your default window manager for X. - Then run: - $ startx - -NOTE: -Also explained in more detail below, upgrading to this KDE 5 is non-trivial. -You will have to remove old KDE packages manually. If you do not have KDE -installed at all, you will have to *install* some of Slackware's own KDE -packages manually. - -NOTE: -If you decide to install these packages on top of a fresh installation of - Slackware-current and have excluded all packages in the 'KDE' package series - during installation, you will be missing several add-on packages, some of - these are essential to the proper functioning of KDE! - If you excluded the complete Slackware-current 'KDE' series, then you - will have to install the following essential Slackware-current packages - at a a minimum: - * bluedevil - * polkit-kde-agent-1 - * polkit-kde-kcmodules-1 - And optionally install these extragear packages as well: - * amarok - * calligra - * k3b - * kaudiocreator - * kplayer - * kwebkitpart - * kaudiocreator - * kdevplatform - * kdevelop-pg-qt - * kdevelop - * kdev-python - * kdevelop-php - * kdevelop-php-docs - * kio-mtp - * ktorrent - * libktorrent - * oxygen-gtk2 - * oxygen-gtk3 - * partitionmanager - * skanlite - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -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: - - # rsync -av rsync://alien.slackbook.org/alien/ktown/source/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 -dependencies on Slackware-current is as easy as: - # cd 5/deps - # ./updates.SlackBuild - # cd - - -Be prepared to wait a *long* time since this will recompile Qt4 and compile a -new Qt5 package among others. The finished package will be stored in /tmp . -Then if you want to compile the KDE packages on your computer, run: - # cd 5/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 ! - -But if all you want is the packages I created, then you can skip all of that. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -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, and if you are in runlevel 4 (graphical login) you first have to -go back to runlevel 3 (console) by typing "init 3". - -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-current's default KDE 4.14.3 installed: - # removepkg /var/log/packages/*-4.14.3-* - # removepkg libkscreen - # removepkg kscreen - # removepkg kde-workspace - # removepkg libmm-qt - # removepkg libnm-qt - # removepkg plasma-nm - # removepkg kdeconnect-kde - -If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_15.03 installed: -- Remove packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_15.04: - # removepkg gst1-plugins-base - # removepkg gst1-plugins-good - # removepkg gstreamer1 - # removepkg qt-gstreamer1 - # removepkg libmm-qt5 -- Re-install original Slackware-current packages that were removed from "deps" - in KDE 5_15.04 (this will be easiest using slackpkg): - * LibRaw - * akonadi - * attica - * cmake - * eigen3 - * exiv2 - * grantlee - * harfbuzz - * libfakekey - * libodfgen - * librevenge - * libssh - * libwpd - * orc - * poppler - * qt - * shared-desktop-ontologies - * soprano - * strigi - -Then proceed with installing/upgrading KDE 5 as outlined below. - -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 -(and be careful of the 'dot' at the end of that command, it is part of the -commandline !!): - - # rsync -av rsync://alien.slackbook.org/alien/ktown/current/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!). - -If you want only the 64-bit packages: - # rsync -av --exclude=x86 rsync://alien.slackbook.org/alien/ktown/current/5 . -If you want only the 32-bit packages: - # rsync -av --exclude=x86_64 rsync://alien.slackbook.org/alien/ktown/current/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 (which is the directory called '5'). If you used one of the -above "rsync" commands then you can simply do: - - # cd 5 - -From within this directory, you run the following commands as root (note that -some of the old KDE package names are obsoleted now, they have been split up, -renamed or integrated and that is the reason for the 'removepkg' lines): - - 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 - - If you already have one or more non-english language packs installed: - - On Slackware 32-bit: - # upgradepkg x86/kdei/*.t?z - - On Slackware 64-bit: - # upgradepkg x86_64/kdei/*.t?z - - If you want to have a non-english language pack installed but none is - currently installed, substitute your country code instead of the 'XX' - in the next command: - # upgradepkg --install-new x86_64/kdei/kde-l10n-XX-*.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. - # find /etc/ -name "*.new" - A graphical (ncurses) tool for processing these "*.new" files is slackpkg: - # slackpkg new-config - -Then reboot your system. - -============================================================================== - Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 28-apr-2015 - |