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-rw-r--r-- | README.5_18.01 (renamed from README.5_17.12) | 79 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | README.5_18.01.testing (renamed from README.5_17.12_testing) | 15 |
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diff --git a/README.5_17.12 b/README.5_18.01 index 4287fd9..a5628a0 100644 --- a/README.5_17.12 +++ b/README.5_18.01 @@ -1,60 +1,38 @@ KDE5 ==== -Good-bye KDE 4! -Here is KDE 5_17.12 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.41.0, -Plasma 5.11.4 and Applications 17.12.0 on top of Qt 5.9.3. +Here is KDE 5_18.01 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.42.0, +Plasma 5.11.5 and Applications 17.12.1 on top of Qt 5.9.3. -Upgrading from the previous 5_17.11 is not completely trivial so read on. +Upgrading from the previous 5_17.12 is relatively straight-forward. -KDE-5_17.12 is meant to be installed on top of Slackware -current. +KDE-5_18.01 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. Applications 17.12 no longer ships anything based on kdelibs4. What is the NEWS in this batch of updates: -- Several recompiled/upgraded 'deps': OpenAL, PyQt5, cfitsio, ddcutil, gpgme, - json-glib, libburn, libpwquality, libxkbcommon,lmdb and poppler. -- The telepathy section of the 'deps' also saw several upgrades: - libaccounts-glib, libaccounts-qt5, libnice, libsignon-glib, signon, - signon-plugin-oauth2, signon-ui, telegram-qt, telepathy-gabble, - telepathy-glib, telepathy-logger-qt5, telepathy-mission-control, - telepathy-morse and telepathy-qt5. +Compared to last month when we said good-bye to the KDE4 legacy, there's +nothing really exciting to report this time. - Frameworks update is a stability release, see: - https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.41.0.php . + https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.42.0.php . - Plasma also is a stability update, see - https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.11.4.php . + https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.11.5.php . I compiled plasma5-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. -- Applications 17.12.0 is where the hammer hits. KDE Applications 17.12 is - the first release that sheds its KDE4 legacy. Any program which had not - yet been ported to KDE Frameworks 5 has been removed. This means that we - say goodbye to the following packages: - libkface (unmaintained), blogilo (unmaintained and broken), jovie (replaced - by Qt Speech), kaccessible (superseded by Qt5 functionality), ksaneplugin - (no one used it), kde-runtime (split up), kremotecontrol, kppp, kfilereplace, - klinkstatus, kopete and kscd (I did not have a package for kscd anyway). - New is 'ksmtp' which belongs to the KDEPIM suite (also part of Applications). - And 'kstars' has moved out of Applications and into applications-extra - because it no longer follows the regular release schedule. - See https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-17.12.0.php . -- In applications-extra I have added kstars and rebuilt calligra and krita. - Upgraded are kile, kpmcore and partitionmanager. Removed is kuser because - that was still KDE4 based and no longer works now. -- I have emptied the kde/kde4 and kde/kde4-extragear subdirectories except - for the 'kdelibs' package. The 'oxygen-gtk2' package has been moved to - 'applications-extra' because it is still needed for Mozilla-based browsers. - 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'! -- The 'kdei' subdirectory which used to contain the localization packages, - is gone. The Plasma 5 localizations are contained in the packages - themselves now. This means that you can no longer selectively install - just one language, or even none at all. It will increase the disk space - requirements a bit. +- Applications 17.12.1 is the first incremental update for the 17.12 series + and fixes some bugs. + See https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-17.12.1.php . +- In applications-extra I have recompiled kjots. Upgraded are digikam, krita, + partitionmanager, kstars, kdevelop,kdev-php and kdev-python. + The kdevplatform package has been removed as it is no longer part + of the KDEvelop suite. 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. @@ -90,14 +68,6 @@ Further points of interest: telepathy-morse, telepathy-qt5, telepathy-logger, telepathy-logger-qt5, telepathy-mission-control and telepathy-accounts-signon. - Telepathy for KDE packages are found in their own subdirectory kde/telepathy . -- The kde/kde4 directory contains packages that are still required to - support 3rd party kdelibs4-based programs. -- Also worth mentioning: the KF5 ports of calligra, digikam, kaudiocreator, - kile, krita, ktorrent, kwebkitpart, partitionmanager, skanlite - and the KDE Development Suite can be found in kde/applications-extra . - Finally, kjots (previously contained in KDEPIM), kuser (abandoned by its - developer) and kstars (does not align with the Application release schedule - any longer) have been moved into kde/applications-extra as well. NOTE: If you install a 32bit program on a 64bit Slackware computer with multilib @@ -163,6 +133,11 @@ 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_17.12 installed: +- Upgrade to KDE 5_18.01 + Remove the packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_18.01: + # removepkg kdevplatform + If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_17.11 installed: - Upgrade to KDE 5_17.12 Remove the packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_17.12: @@ -272,7 +247,7 @@ Then proceed with installing/upgrading KDE 5 as outlined below. NOTE: The example commands below are for Slackware -current but you can use -these commands for Slackware 14.2 as well by replacing the /current/ +these commands for Slackware 14.2 as well; by replacing the /current/ string with /14.2/ (provided there is a suitable 'ktown' release available for Slackware 14.2 of course): @@ -355,8 +330,8 @@ 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 script -'updates.SlackBuild' in a long time) as easy as this: +dependencies on Slackware-current is hopefully (have not tested the scripts +'updates.SlackBuild' and 'alldeps.SlackBuild' in a long time) as easy as this: # cd 5/deps # ./updates.SlackBuild # cd - @@ -377,4 +352,4 @@ 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 / 21-dec-2017 + Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 18-jan-2018 diff --git a/README.5_17.12_testing b/README.5_18.01.testing index a819901..06a582c 100644 --- a/README.5_17.12_testing +++ b/README.5_18.01.testing @@ -1,15 +1,14 @@ KDE5 ==== -Here is KDE 5_17.12_testing for Slackware, consisting of the -KDE Frameworks 5.41.0, Plasma 5.11.4 and Applications 17.12.0 +Here is KDE 5_18.01_testing for Slackware, consisting of the +KDE Frameworks 5.42.0, Plasma 5.11.5 and Applications 17.12.1 on top of Qt 5.9.3. -Upgrading from 5_17.11_testing is not so straight-forward, however -it'll be easier if you already have 5_17.12 installed. +Upgrading from 5_17.12_testing is straight-forward. -KDE-5_17.12_testing is meant to be installed on top of slackware -current. -It is different from the 'regular' KDE_5.17.12 release in the sense that this +KDE-5_18.01_testing is meant to be installed on top of slackware -current. +It is different from the 'regular' KDE_5.18.01 release in the sense that this 'testing' release has a working Wayland support for Plasma5 on Slackware. To this purpose, the original Slackware packages 'mesa' and xorg-server' were recompiled to add Wayland support. Having to provide altered packages @@ -45,7 +44,7 @@ the KWin developers then added CK2 as an alternative in case systemd-logind is not present on the system. Which means, we do not need PAM nor systemd to make Wayland work on Slackware. -The differences between 'KDE-5_17.12' and 'KDE-5_17.12_testing': +The differences between 'KDE-5_18.01' and 'KDE-5_18.01_testing': Added packages: Deps: @@ -85,4 +84,4 @@ Wayland working on Slackware. Otherwise, the 'latest' release is what you need. ============================================================================== - Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 22-dec-2017 + Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 18-jan-2018 |