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diff --git a/README.5_15.10 b/README.5_15.10 deleted file mode 100644 index 810e552..0000000 --- a/README.5_15.10 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,296 +0,0 @@ -KDE5 -==== - -Here is KDE 5_15.10 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.15.0, -Plasma 5.4.2 and Applications 15.08.2. - -Upgrading from the previous 5_15.09_02 should be straight-forward. -KDE-5_15.10 is meant only to be installed on top of Slackware -current and -it will *replace* any version of KDE 4 you might have installed! - -What is the NEWS in this batch of updates: -- Two updated "deps" packages: qca-qt5 and wayland. -- A completely new subset of "deps" packages, contained in their own - "telepathy" subdirectory, is paving the way for KDE Telepathy (see below): - libotr, libnice, farstream, libaccounts-glib, libaccounts-qt5, - signon, signon-plugin-oauth2, signon-ui, libsignon-glib, - telepathy-glib, telepathy-farstream, telepathy-haze, telepathy-gabble, - telepathy-qt5, telepathy-logger, telepathy-logger-qt5, - telepathy-mission-control and telepathy-accounts-signon. -- Frameworks 5.15.0 is an enhancement release, no new Framework was added. See - https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.15.0.php -- Plasma 5.4.2 is a bugfix release, you can read the details in - https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.4.2.php . Worth mentioning is - that I have finally enabled the 'plasma-mediacenter' package. -- In plasma-extra you will find a rebuilt sddm-qt5 package which fixes the - broken progress bar on startup of the Plasma Desktop session. Also you will - find a new package 'xembed-sni-proxy' which docks into the Plasma 5 system - tray and provided a legacy XEmbed tray for those applications that need it. - It is therefore no longer necessary to use a program like trayer-srg or - stalonetray to make these XEmbed tray-icons visible. -- Applications 15.08.2 is a bugfix release as well. But for my Slackware - package set, the important change is that I have added all the KDE Telepathy - packages that previously stayed un-built. You'll find a new systray icon - waiting for you to configure your IM accounts. Only the voice & video GUI - is still missing, the KDE Telepathy developers are still looking for someone - knowledgeable to port the old KDE 4 version to Frameworks 5. - -Further points of interest that are unchanged since the previous releases: -- ConsoleKit2 replaces Slackware's ConsoleKit. Now we have something again - which is properly maintained and well on its way to implementing the - necessary parts of the systemd-logind API (so that we can ignore systemd). -- 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) -- Note that I did not compile KDEnlive which ships with Applications. It needs - a lot of attention before I can build this (ffmpeg amd more is required). -- 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 -- akonadi4 and kdepimlibs4 were added to support KDE 4 applications that call - PIM functionality. -- 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 and the - aforementioned new telepathy support packages, these are the new ones: - OpenAL, PyQT5, cfitsio, json-glib, libappindicator, libdbusmenu-gtk, - libdbusmenu-qt5, libindicator, lmdb, 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.x 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 for using KWin inside a - X session it is not needed at *runtime*. -- 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 - * 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 -...or instead of the above, simply '# slackpkg remove kde'. - -If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_15.09_02 installed: -- No further actions are needed. - -If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_15.09 installed: -- Upgrade to KDE-5_15.09_02 and then remove the packages - that no longer exist in KDE 5_15.09_02: - * removepkg LoginKit - -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/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 - - 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 / 13-oct-2015 |