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diff --git a/README.5_15.09 b/README.5_15.09 deleted file mode 100644 index ed3f499..0000000 --- a/README.5_15.09 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,386 +0,0 @@ -KDE5 -==== - -Here is KDE 5_15.09 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.13.0, -Plasma 5.4.0 and Applications 15.08.0. - -This is an intrusive update if you currently have my KDE 5_15.07 packages -installed. Consider this to be beta-quality because there may be some usability -issues - and read the "BUILD NOTES" below very carefully before you decide -to upgrade. I need testers to iron out some annoying regressions. - -KDE-5_15.09 is meant only to be installed on top of Slackware -current and -it will *replace* any version of KDE 4 you might have installed! - -BUILD NOTES: - -In random order, this is what I ran into while working on this set of updates. -* Qt5 fails to compile if an older version of Qt5 is already installed. -* frameworks:kwallet should be built against applications:gpgmepp, - therefore I adapted the build order in KDE.SlackBuild slightly. -* Several Applications packages could not be configured using cmake, - because of a missing line in their CMakeFiles.txt. These files needed a line - "cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.9)". Instead of creating 17 patches I - decided to modify cmake/applications and cake/applications5 instead, and - fixed the omission with a sed substitution. -* kde-runtime needs the kdelibs-4 based kdepimlibs. Since KDEPIM has now been - ported to KDE Frameworks 5 (KF5) I had to add a compatibility package - "kdepimlibs4" containing the relevant bits of the old kdepimlibs. -* and... kdepimlibs4 needs the old akonadi-1.13 release. Therefore a "akonadi4" - package was added alongside "kdepimlibs4" in the kde/kde4/ directory. -* kdepimlibs4 will fail to compile in the presence of akonadi (kf5 edition), - it wants only akonadi4 to be present. I hope I fixed this. -* Compilation errors in okteta required a patch to qca-qt5. -* I took the opportunity to rebuild some packages with library linking issues - caused by recent slackware-current updates: phonon-vlc, pykde4, qtruby, - korundum, smokekde, perlqt, smokeqt, baloo. -* rocs will emit an internal compiler error unless you increase the RAM to - well beyond 3GB (use a big swap file if needed). -* Into the breeze package I have built Qt4 support in addition to the default - Qt5 support. This will allow the KDE4 based applications to blend in - with the Plasma 5 Breeze theme better. -* I updated the SDDM login manager (sddm-qt5 package) with a git snapshot - which supposedly supports the session management of ConsoleKit2. However - the 'passwd' authentication backend was broken and it took a while before - someone came up with a patch. -* Several "deps" packages were removed: - - grantlee-qt5 (nothing uses the old grantlee anymore I hope, so I just - replaced it with the new grantlee-5) - - pairs and kgamma (no longer part of KDE Applications) - - ConsoleKit (has been replaced by ConsoleKit2 which is a fork of the - no longer maintained ConsoleKit and has several fixes and enhancements) -* A problematic package is baloo because its file content partially overlaps - with baloo5, and I do not know what I can do about it. Nor do I know if - this has any negative impact on Plasma 5 Workspace. -* libkface requires opencv as a dependency. I almost wanted to add opencv to - make the process of adding digikam easier (since digikam needs both libkface - and opencv) but after discussing with willysr and ponce, SBo admins, - I decided to skip this because the new opencv-3 has to much impact on the - slackbuilds.org content. - -All in all I am pretty unhappy with the effort which was required to get this -latest batch of updates to compile and work together. -And even then, with a finished set of packages, there are a few annoying issues -for which I have no explanation nor do I have a solution because I do not know -whether they are caused by Plasma 5 or by the recent slackware-current updates. - -Annoyance #1: -Logging out is delayed: -* Try to open the Plasma Kicker startmenu and move your mouse over the - "Leave" tab. It will then take a minute to display the tab's content, - and in the meantime, the Plasma workspace is frozen. Any open application - windows are still responsive and you can work with them. -* Try to use the logout/shutdown widget in the system tray if you added that. - Clicking the widget will also cause a one to two minute delay before the - logoff dialog appears. -* Try logging out from the commandline using this qdbus commmand in an X term: - $ qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer logout 0 0 0 - You will notice that this command just sits there for the same one to two - minutes, and then it kicks into action and you'll be logged off. -Something is amiss with the communication over dbus. Ideas anyone? - -Annoyance #2: -Whenever the power saver kicks in and I am not paying attention, the screen -of my Lenovo T400 laptop (Intel graphics) turns black and will not revive. -I have to Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to my Linux console, press the backlight button until I can read again what's on screen, and then back to X using Alt-F7. - -Annoyance #3: -In my 32-bit virtual machine I cannot even login, because there is a flood of -re-spawning screensaver processes that prevent access. This can be caused by -something in the virtual machine, but I did not do extensive troubleshooting. - -=== END OF BUILD NOTES === - -Having said all that, it is still an impressive release with lots of changes -and improvements. I hope that we get the quirks solved so we can focus on -what's good. - -Highlights of KDE-5_15.09: -- Qt5 has been updated to 5.5.0 -- ConsoleKit (unmaintained) gets replaced by ConsoleKit2 (well-maintained fork) - which could open up a path to a systemd-free Slackware that is compatible to - a large extent with systemd requirements. -- I added LoginKit also for that purpose. LoginKit in its present form does not - do much (if anything at all) but I want to have it in for those who want to - play test this. -- Several of the other deps were added, updated, rebuilt or removed as well: - LibRaw (update for the Slackware package), - PyQt5 (updated), - qca-qt5 (patched), - grantlee (update for the Slackware package) - lmdb (new) - grantlee-qt5 (renamed to grantlee thereby replacing the Slackware version) -- Removed deps (we can use the original Slackware packages now) are: - PyQt, sip and libepoxy -- Frameworks 5.13.0 is an enhancement release, lots of fixes are documented on - https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.13.0.php -- Plasma 5.4.0 is a feature release, you can read all the details in - https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.4.0.php - Important is that the krunner has a command history again, and lots of new - icons were added for non-Plasma5 applications, which helps to give the - Plasma 5 desktop a uniform look and feel; - Not so important for Slackware is the Wayland Tech Preview and some system - tool improvements using PAM (kwallet-pam) or pulseaudio (audio volume applet). -- Applications 15.08.0 is bringing more KF5 ports: 107 applications in total. - Most noticeable are the KF5 ports of Dolphin (the file manager), KDEPIM (the - Kontact Suite as it is called now) and Ark (archive tool). I am a bit worried - about the Kontact development toward the KDE Frameworks 5. Lots of struggles - were discussed in the mailing lists and the resulting KF5 based Kontact Suite - is still considered BETA quality. - The move to KF5 exposed several older KDE4 based applications that have - a dependency on the KDE4 based PIM libraries. - Therefore I had to add a compatibility layer of packages containing that - KDE4 code: akonadi4 and kdepimlibs4 (similar to what I had to do earlier - with libkmahjongg4, libkdegames4, konsolepart4 and katepart4). - -Further points of interest that are unchanged since the previous releases: -- kde/kde4-extragear packages should be taken from slackware-current (calligra, - k3b, kaudiocreator, kplayer, kwebkitpart, oxygen-gtk2, kdevplatform, - kdevelop-pg-qt, kdevelop, kdev-python, kdevelop-php, kdevelop-php-docs, - skanlite, kio-mtp, libktorrent, ktorrent, partitionmanager) -- I still did not compile the new Plasma Mediacenter tech-preview. -- 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 -- katepart4 was added so that kdevelop works again -- konsolepart4 was added to be able to use an embedded konsole in dolphin -- kdeconnect4 was added; this stripped-down version of the KDE4 based - kdeconnect-kde allows you to access your Android device with the - (also still KDE4 based) Dolphin filemanager -- 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: - OpenAL, PyQT5, cfitsio, json-glib, libappindicator, libdbusmenu-gtk, - libdbusmenu-qt5, libindicator, polkit-qt5-1, qca-qt5, qt-gstreamer, 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 5.4.0 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), user-manager and kwallet-pam - (need PAM), plasma-pa (needs pulseaudio). -- 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 - * libktorrent - And optionally install these Slackware-current 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 - * oxygen-gtk2 - * 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 kactivities - # removepkg kde-workspace - # removepkg libmm-qt - # removepkg libnm-qt - # removepkg plasma-nm - # removepkg polkit-kde-agent-1 - # removepkg polkit-kde-kcmodules-1 - # removepkg kdeconnect-kde - -If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_15.07 installed: -- Upgrade to KDE-5_15.09 and then remove the packages - that no longer exist in KDE 5_15.09: - * removepkg ConsoleKit - * removepkg grantlee-qt5 - * removepkg kgamma - * removepkg pairs - -If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_15.06 installed: -- No further actions are needed. - -If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_15.05 installed: -- Re-install the following 'ktown' packages: - * kactivities-framework - -If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_15.04 installed: -- Remove packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_15.05: - * removepkg qt-gstreamer0 -- Re-install 'ktown' packages: - * qt-gstreamer - -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 / 03-sep-2015 |