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author Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com>2018-01-19 20:50:28 +0100
committer Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com>2018-01-19 20:50:28 +0100
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Release of KDE 5_18.01 for SlackwareKDE-5_18.015_18.01
- PKGLIST updated with the list of available packages in this release (limited to slackware-current). - README updated. - README.testing added for 'testing' repository.
Diffstat (limited to '')
-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
2 files changed, 34 insertions, 60 deletions
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