From 282b1f2689d71a15cc1ab4cd89e4ca3df1369171 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Hameleers Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 12:31:56 +0200 Subject: Release of KDE 5_16.04 for Slackware. --- README.5_16.04 | 318 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 318 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.5_16.04 (limited to 'README.5_16.04') diff --git a/README.5_16.04 b/README.5_16.04 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..54d0167 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.5_16.04 @@ -0,0 +1,318 @@ +KDE5 +==== + +Here is KDE 5_16.04 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.21.0, +Plasma 5.6.3 and Applications 16.04.0. + +Upgrading from the previous 5_16.03 should be straight-forward. +KDE-5_16.04 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: +- Frameworks 5.21.0 is an enhancement release with one new framework: + kactivities-stats. + See https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.21.0.php +- Plasma 5.6.3 is the third interation of the 5.6 series which I have not + shipped before. I have upgraded Qt5 to 5.6.0 to accompany this Plasma + release. Lots of visual improvements, the task manager is much more + informative about running tasks and the weather applet is back... +- Two packages were removed that I added to 'plasma-extra' to cover for the + period after release of Frameworks 5.20.0 and before Plasma 5.6.0. + The package 'kactivities-workspace' has been absorbed in Plasma and + Applications packages, and 'kactivitymanagerd' is now part of Plasma itself. + See https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.6.3.php . +- Applications 16.04.0 was just released. KColorChooser, KFloppy, KMahjongg + and KRDC have now been ported to KDE Frameworks 5, and the Kontact Suite + (KDEPIM) has been subject to massive bughunting (and -fixing). Lots of + PIM related libraries were split-off into their own source tarballs, + resulting in 16 new packages. For the announcement, see + https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-16.04.0.php . +- KDE Telepathy now officially has a voice & video GUI application. + Previously I shipped a beta release of the "ktp-call-ui" package. + Also I upgraded or recompiled the complete stack of "deps/telepathy" + packages. +- ktorrent (and libktorrent) have also been ported to KF5, and packages for + these have been added to kde/applications-extra/ . +- Phonon, and its plugins for gstreamer and VLC backends, have been upgraded + offering improvements for the Qt5 build, better volume slider and muting + support, and use of the VLC 2.2 API. Remember, if you actually want to + use the VLC backend for phonon you will have to install a VLC package + separately (it is not included with the 'ktown' releases). +- And finally, QT5 was updated to the latest release 5.6.0. A new package + was added (qt5-webkit) because the Qt5 WebKit source code has been removed + from Qt5 since 5.6.0 and it needs to be compiled/packaged separately now. + +Further points of interest: +- 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, partitionmanager) +- Lots of packages in the 'deps' department 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 + new telepathy support packages (see below), these are the new ones: + OpenAL, PyQT5, cfitsio, json-glib, libappindicator, libdbusmenu-gtk, + libdbusmenu-qt5, libindicator, lmdb, noto-font-ttf, noto-cjk-font-ttf, + polkit-qt5-1, qca-qt5, qt-gstreamer, qt5, qt5-webkit, sni-qt, wayland + and libxkbcommon. +- A completely new subset of "deps" packages, contained in their own + "telepathy" subdirectory, needed for KDE Telepathy: + 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. +- Telepathy for KDE packages are found in their own subdirectory kde/telepathy . + +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 + can 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 + * oxygen-gtk2 + * partitionmanager + * skanlite + +NOTE: +If you had installed KDE4 previously as your default desktop, the removal +of KDE4 packages will break the symbolic link '/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc'. +An attempt to run 'startx' in a console will fail with a black screen. +After installing Plasma5 for the first time, you need to run 'xwmconfig' +and select 'xinitrc.plasma' as your desktop session. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +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' and de-select + the packages you want to keep (calligra, skanlite etc). + +If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_16.03 installed: +- Upgrade to KDE 5_16.04 + Remove the packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_16.04: + * removepkg kactivities-workspace + +If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_16.02 installed: +- No further actions are needed. + +If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_16.01 installed: +- No further actions are needed. + +If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_15.12 installed: +- No further actions are needed. + +If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_15.11 installed: +- Upgrade to KDE-5_15.12 + Remove the packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_15.12: + * removepkg xembed-sni-proxy + * removepkg ktux + * removepkg amor + You may want to reconsider removing these, lots of old artwork in there: + * removepkg kde-base-artwork + * removepkg kde-wallpapers + * removepkg kdeartwork + +If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_15.10 installed: +- Upgrade to KDE-5_15.11 + Then re-install original Slackware-current package that was removed + from "deps" in KDE 5_15.11 (this will be easiest using slackpkg): + * ConsoleKit2 + * eigen2 + * xapian-core + Remove the package that no longer exists in KDE 5_15.11: + * removepkg kdeconnect4 + +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. + +If all you want is to install the packages I created, then you can skip the +remainder of the README which details how to (re)compile the packages from +their sources; it is not required reading material. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +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 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 ! + +============================================================================== + Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 20-apr-2016 -- cgit v1.2.3