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diff --git a/README.5_17.06 b/README.5_17.07 index 251a570..ae55cf1 100644 --- a/README.5_17.06 +++ b/README.5_17.07 @@ -1,35 +1,30 @@ KDE5 ==== -Here is KDE 5_17.06 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.35.0, -Plasma 5.10.2 and Applications 17.04.2 on top of Qt 5.9.0. +Here is KDE 5_17.07 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.36.0, +Plasma 5.10.3 and Applications 17.04.3 on top of Qt 5.9.0. -Upgrading from the previous 5_17.05_02 is straight-forward. +Upgrading from the previous 5_17.06 is straight-forward. -KDE-5_17.06 is meant to be installed on top of Slackware -current. +KDE-5_17.07 is meant to be installed on top of Slackware -current. It will *replace* any version of KDE 4 you might have installed! Plasma 5 -has mostly gotten rid of its Qt4 legacy. +has mostly gotten rid of its Qt4 legacy. Applications 17.12 will no longer +ship anything based on kdelibs4. What is the NEWS in this batch of updates: -- I moved to Qt version 5.9.0. This is supposed to be a LTS release - (Long Term Support). -- As a result of the qt5 upgrade, lots of other packages in the 'deps' section - were recompiled (grantlee phonon polkit-qt5-1 qca-qt5 qt-gstreamer qtav) - or upgraded (OpenAL PyQt5 libdbusmenu-qt5 poppler qt5-webkit wayland). -- Plasma was updated to 5.10.2 bugfix release, see - https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.10.2.php . And if you want to +- Plasma was updated to 5.10.3 bugfix release, see + https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.10.3.php . And if you want to know more about what's new in Plasma 5.10, read it on https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.10.0.php I compiled plasma-nm against openconnect so that it picks up support for it. However I did not add openconnect to the 'deps' section, you need to install it separately if you need it. -- Frameworks 5.35.0 is a maintenance release, see - https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.35.0.php -- Applications 17.04.2 is a bugfix update for KDE Applications 17.04. - See https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-17.04.2.php . -- In applications-extra the following packages were upgraded: digikam, - krita, kpmcore, partitionmanager. Calligra was recompiled against the - new gsl, marble and qt5 libraries. +- Frameworks 5.36.0 is a maintenance release, see + https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.36.0.php +- Applications 17.04.3 is a bugfix update for KDE Applications 17.04. + See https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-17.04.3.php . +- In applications-extra I added a new package: 'kile', a LaTex editor. + I used a git snapshot of the upcoming KDE Frameworks 5 based version. Further points of interest: - There are a couple of *runtime* dependencies that I did not add to the @@ -46,15 +41,15 @@ Further points of interest: applications to dock into the Plasma 5 system tray, more dependencies were needed. So, apart from updates to regular Slackware packages and the new telepathy support packages (see below), these are the new ones: - OpenAL, PyQT5, cfitsio, dvdauthor, frei0r-plugins, grantlee-qt4, - hack-font-ttf, json-glib, lensfun, libappindicator, libdbusmenu-gtk, - libdbusmenu-qt5, libdmtx, libindicator, libinput, libwacom, libxkbcommon, - lmdb, mlt, ninja, noto-font-ttf, noto-cjk-font-ttf, opencv, polkit-qt5-1, - qca-qt5, qrencode, qt-gstreamer, qt5, qt5-webkit, sni-qt, vid.stab - and wayland. As a side note, libinput and libwacom have become part of - Slackware-current. Technically that makes them redundant in the above - listing, however I still compile Plasma5 packages for Slackware 14.2 so - I left them in. + OpenAL, PyQT5, accountsservice, cfitsio, cracklib, dvdauthor, frei0r-plugins, + grantlee-qt4, hack-font-ttf, json-glib, lensfun, libappindicator, libburn, + libdbusmenu-gtk, libdbusmenu-qt5, libdmtx, libindicator, libinput, + libpwquality, libwacom, libxkbcommon, lmdb, mlt, ninja, noto-font-ttf, + noto-cjk-font-ttf, opencv, polkit-qt5-1, qca-qt5, qrencode, qt-gstreamer, + qt5, qt5-webkit, qtav, sni-qt, vid.stab and wayland. + As a side note, libinput and libwacom have become part of Slackware-current. + Technically that makes them redundant in the above listing, however I still + compile Plasma5 packages for Slackware 14.2 so I left them in. The phonon and poppler packages were extended so that they now support Qt4 as well as Qt5. Note that the SBo version of 'frei0r-plugins' package is called 'frei0r'. @@ -69,15 +64,15 @@ Further points of interest: - Telepathy for KDE packages are found in their own subdirectory kde/telepathy . - The kde/kde4 and kde/kde4-extragear directories contain packages that are still required to support kdelibs4-based Applications. -- Also worth mentioning: the KF5 ports of calligra, digikam, krita, ktorrent, - partitionmanager, skanlite and the KDE Development Suite can be found - in kde/applications-extra . +- Also worth mentioning: the KF5 ports of calligra, digikam, kile, krita, + ktorrent, partitionmanager, skanlite and the KDE Development Suite + can be found in kde/applications-extra . Finally, kjots (previously contained in KDEPIM) and kuser (abandoned by its developer) have been moved into kde/applications-extra as well. NOTE: If you install a 32bit program on a 64bit Slackware computer with multilib -and that program needs legacy system tray support (think of Skype for +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 @@ -152,6 +147,9 @@ 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_17.06 installed: +- No further actions are needed. + If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_17.05_02 installed: - No further actions are needed. @@ -234,9 +232,8 @@ string with /14.2/ (provided there is a suitable 'ktown' release available for Slackware 14.2 of course): NOTE: -Instead of using the mirror host bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/ -you could choose the master host alien.slackbook.org/alien/ktown/ -but that will probably be a lot slower for some of you. +Instead of using the mirror host bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/ , +you could choose the alternative mirror http://slackware.uk/people/alien-kde/ NOTE: If you use 'slackpkg' to automate your upgrades, be sure to blacklist my @@ -346,4 +343,4 @@ 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-jun-2017 + Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 17-jul-2017 |