From 7784036e15f0146cb59a38bfd3d689b1c5810167 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Hameleers Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 23:44:50 +0100 Subject: Release of KDE 5_15.02 for Slackware. --- README.5_15.02 | 226 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 226 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.5_15.02 (limited to 'README.5_15.02') diff --git a/README.5_15.02 b/README.5_15.02 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d4fb032 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.5_15.02 @@ -0,0 +1,226 @@ +KDE5 +==== + +This is KDE 5_15.02 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.7.0, +Plasma 5.2.0 and Applications 14.12.2. +This is meant only to be installed on top of Slackware -current and it will +*replace* any version of KDE 4 you migh thave installed! + +Plasma 5 is the next generation of KDE's desktop workspace. +Plasma 5 improves support for high-DPI displays and comes with a "converged +shell", i.e. one Plasma codebase for different target devices. Plasma 5 uses +a new fully hardware-accelerated OpenGL(ES) graphics stack. Plasma 5 is built +using Qt 5 and Frameworks 5. +And with the Breeze themed artwork and its own Oxygen font, this desktop looks +clean and modern. + +New & changed since my 15.01 release of KDE 5: +- all "extragear" packages that went missing between KDE 4.14.3 and 5_15.01 + like k3b, kdevelop etc, have been re-added +- The Frameworks have been upgraded from 5.6.0 to 5.7.0 +- The Applications have been upgraded from 14.12.1 to 14.12.2 (bugfix release) +- katepart4 was added so that kdevelop works again +- konsolepart4 was added to be able to use an embedded konsole in dolphin +- sddm-theme-breeze was removed, the theme is now part of plasma-workspace + +Further points of interest that are unchanged since my KDE 5_15.01: +- 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: + LibRaw, OpenAL, akonadi-qt5, eigen3, gst1-plugins-base, gst1-plugins-good, + gstreamer1, json-glib, libappindicator, libdbusmenu-gtk, libdbusmenu-qt5, + libepoxy, libfakekey, libindicator, orc, polkit-qt5-1, qca-qt5, qt-gstreamer, + qt-gstreamer1, 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. +- I added the latest Calligra 2.8.7 office suite. +- Several source tarballs in Plasma 5.2.0 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). +- 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 (actually, it does not seem required any longer, but that + issue will be revisited on next Plasma update). +- Graphical login: KDM has been replaced with SDDM. + If you want to see the new graphical session (login) manager SDDM in action, + add the following lines to the Slackware file "/etc/rc.d/rc.4" right after + the line: echo "Starting up X11 session manager..." + +# --- 8< -------------------------------------- +if [ -x /usr/bin/sddm ]; then + exec /usr/bin/sddm +fi +# --- 8< -------------------------------------- + +... and then switch to runlevel 4 by typing (at the root prompt): + + # init 4 + +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 + * polkit-kde-agent-1 + * polkit-kde-kcmodules-1 + And optionally install these as well: + * amarok + * kaudiocreator + * kdevelop-pg-qt + * kplayer + * ktorrent + * libktorrent + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +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's default KDE 4.10.5 installed: + # removepkg /var/log/packages/*-4.10.5-* + # removepkg libkscreen + # removepkg kscreen + +If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 4.14.3 installed: + # removepkg /var/log/packages/*-4.14.3-*alien + # removepkg libkscreen + # removepkg kscreen + # removepkg kde-workspace + # removepkg libmm-qt + # removepkg plasma-nm + # removepkg kdeconnect-kde + +If you have my 'ktown_preview' set of KDE 5.0.2 installed as well: + # removepkg /var/log/packages/*-5.0.2-*alien + # removepkg /var/log/packages/*-5.2.0-*alien + # removepkg kscreen2 libkscreen2 libmm-qt5 libnm-qt5 oxygen-fonts sddm + +If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_15.01 installed: + # removepkg /var/log/packages/sddm-theme-breeze + +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 / 17-feb-2015 + -- cgit v1.2.3