From be91bcf624186fe15b58ba552c12de081e64c269 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Hameleers Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 15:05:11 +0200 Subject: Release of KDE 5_15.09_02 for Slackware. --- README.5_15.09_02 | 302 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 302 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.5_15.09_02 (limited to 'README.5_15.09_02') diff --git a/README.5_15.09_02 b/README.5_15.09_02 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7019847 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.5_15.09_02 @@ -0,0 +1,302 @@ +KDE5 +==== + +Here is KDE 5_15.09_02 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.14.0, +Plasma 5.4.1 and Applications 15.08.1. + +Upgrading from the previous 5_15.09 should be an easy ride. +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! + +There is a couple of bugs left that really nag me: +Both these issues are most likely caused by the Intel driver in +Slackware-current, not by the KDE packages. +- Whenever the power saver kicks in and I am not paying attention, the screen + of my Lenovo T400 laptop (Intel graphics) turns black (backlight stays off?). + I have to Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to my Linux console, press the brightness button + until I can read again what's on screen, and then back to X using Alt-F7. +- If the screenlocker was activated during powersave, and I have to run the + above sequence to get my X display visible again, the screenlocker is + seemingly not responding to my typing. But in fact the display is simply not + refreshing. After typing my password and hitting ENTER (thus unlocking my + session) the screen seems unchanged until I press Alt-TAB and the screen + suddenly refreshes, showing my unlocked desktop. + +Noteworthy NEWS for this batch of updates: +- One "deps" package was removed: + LoginKit - it did not add anything that ConsoleKit2 does not do already + (offer the same API as systemd-logind) and in fact having it installed + was the cause of minute-log delays in displaying the "Leave" menu or + responding to clicks on the Logout widget. One annoyance less! +- One "deps" packages was added: + libproxy - this is a recompilation of the package that is already + part of Slackware. I rebuilt it without support for KDE 4, which will + help preventing crashes in KDE Frameworks 5 (KF5) based applications + that call libproxy's functions which in turn would load KDE 4 libraries. +- Frameworks 5.14.0 is an enhancement release, lots of fixes are documented on + https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.14.0.php +- Plasma 5.4.1 is a bugfix release, you can read all the details in + https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.4.1.php +- Applications 15.08.1 is a bugfix release as well, mainly for the total of + 107 applications that have been ported to KF5. + +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) +- 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 +- 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, 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 it is apparently not needed at + *runtime*. Nevertheless, I left the package in, just in case you want or need + to recompile kwin. +- 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_15.09 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/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 / 14-sep-2015 -- cgit v1.2.3