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-KDE5
-====
-
-Here is KDE 5_16.11 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.27.0,
-Plasma 5.8.3 and Applications 16.08.2 on top of Qt 5.7.0.
-
-Upgrading from the previous 5_16.08 should be straight-forward.
-KDE-5_16.11 is meant to be installed on top of Slackware 14.2 or -current.
-It will *replace* any version of KDE 4 you might have installed!
-
-What is the NEWS in this batch of updates:
-- Frameworks 5.27.0 is an enhancement release.
- See https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.27.0.php
-- Plasma 5.8.3 is an incremental bug fix release for the 5.8 series.
- Note that this is the first Plasma 5.8 that goes into my 'ktown' packages
- as you will notice straight away when starting a Plasma session. There is
- a new 'loading' animation again.
- Plasma 5.8 is labeled a Long Term Support (LTS) release. In part this
- has been done because the developers think that 5.8 marks the point where
- users who loved KDE 4 and turned away from Plasma 5 should re-evaluate
- this desktop environment and hopefully want to stay.
- The 5.8 LTS release should work with Qt 5.6.1 but I think it is better
- to stick with the Qt 5.7 which I already used for the previous 'ktown'
- iteration.
- See https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.8.3.php and if you want
- to know more about the LTS, go read:
- https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.8.0.php
-- Applications 16.08.2 is a maintenance upgrade.
- See https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-16.08.2.php .
-- Upgrades for kdeconnect and sddm can be found in the 'plasma-extra'
- subdirectory, while a newer skanlite can be found in 'applications-extra'.
-
-Further points of interest:
-- 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.
- * python-twisted - required by kajongg to start & run.
- * freerdp: access RDP servers through krdc.
- All of these can be found in my regular package repository.
-- kde/kde4-extragear packages should be taken from slackware 14.2 or -current
- (calligra, k3b, kaudiocreator, kplayer, kwebkitpart, oxygen-gtk2).
-- Lots of packages in the 'deps' department are completely new to Slackware.
- Since KDE 5 aka Plasma 5 is built on Qt5 (KDE 4 uses 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, grantlee-qt4, json-glib, libappindicator,
- libdbusmenu-gtk, libdbusmenu-qt5, libindicator, libinput, libxkbcommon,
- lmdb, hack-font-ttf, ninja, noto-font-ttf, noto-cjk-font-ttf, polkit-qt5-1,
- qca-qt5, qt-gstreamer, qt5, qt5-webkit, sni-qt and wayland.
- The phonon package was extended so that it now supports both Qt4 and Qt5.
-- 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 .
-- Also worth mentioning: the KF5 ports of ktorrent and skanlite can be found
- in the applications-extra directory. And kjots, previously contained in
- KDEPIM, is separated into its own package in the kde/applications directory.
-
-NOTE:
-Also explained in more detail below, upgrading to this KDE 5 is non-trivial.
-You will have to remove old KDE 4 packages manually. If you do not have KDE
-installed at all, you will have to *install* some of Slackware's own KDE 4
-packages manually.
-
-NOTE:
-If you decide to install these packages on top of a fresh installation of
- Slackware 14.2 or -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 'KDE' series, then you
- can optionally install these Slackware packages as well:
- * amarok
- * calligra
- * k3b
- * kaudiocreator
- * kplayer
- * kwebkitpart
- * oxygen-gtk2
-
-NOTE:
-If you had installed KDE 4 previously as your default desktop, the removal
-of KDE 4 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 Plasma 5 for the first time, you need to run 'xwmconfig'
-and select 'xinitrc.plasma' as your desktop session.
-
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-Install pre-compiled packages:
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-
-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 14.2 or -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
- # removepkg kdepimlibs
- ..or instead of the above, simply '# slackpkg remove kde' and de-select
- the packages you want to keep (amarok, calligra, k3b etc).
-
-If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_16.08 installed:
-- No further actions are needed.
-
-If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_16.07 installed:
-- Upgrade to KDE 5_16.08
- Remove the packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_16.07:
- * removepkg kdegraphics-strigi-analyzer
- * removepkg kdenetwork-strigi-analyzers
- * rempovepkg kdesdk-strigi-analyzers
- * removepkg kdepimlibs libkdeedu mplayerthumbs
-
-If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_16.06 installed:
-- Upgrade to KDE 5_16.07
- Remove the packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_16.07:
- * removepkg /var/log/packages/noto-font-ttf-2015-09-29-noarch-1alien
-
-If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_16.05 installed:
-- No further actions are needed.
-
-If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_16.04 installed:
-- No further actions are needed.
-
-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.
-
-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.
-
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-Building it all from source:
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-
-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 / 09-nov-2016