From 934ceeb00964cb4fec8632497f744a633434a1a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Hameleers Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 11:17:13 +0100 Subject: Release of KDE 5_17.01 for Slackware. --- README.5_16.12 | 291 --------------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 291 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 README.5_16.12 (limited to 'README.5_16.12') diff --git a/README.5_16.12 b/README.5_16.12 deleted file mode 100644 index ab620c5..0000000 --- a/README.5_16.12 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,291 +0,0 @@ -KDE5 -==== - -Here is KDE 5_16.12 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.28.0, -Plasma 5.8.4 and Applications 16.08.3 on top of Qt 5.7.0. - -I wanted to have the last 16.08.x release of KDE Applications available in -my repository before the new 16.12.x releases start coming. There are -some big changes in Applications 16.12 for which I need to time to review, -plan and build packages. Therefore you will probably not see packages -for Applications 16.12.0 in 2016. - -Upgrading from the previous 5_16.11 should be straight-forward. -KDE-5_16.12 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 5.28.0 is an enhancement release and contains one new framework: - syntax-highlighting. - See https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.28.0.php -- Plasma 5.8.4 is an incremental bug fix release for the 5.8 series. - See https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.8.4.php and if you want - to know more about the long term support (LTS) for Plasma 5.8, go read: - https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.8.0.php -- Applications 16.08.3 is a maintenance upgrade. - See https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-16.08.3.php . -- I have removed baloo and baloo-widgets from the 'kde4' package subset. - These two kdelibs4-based packages are no longer used by other packages -- The qt5 package was recompiled after applying a stability patch. The - patch will be part of Qt 5.7.1 but that does not yet have a release date, - and it should solve issues people are having after resume from suspend. -- The KDE Telepathy stack has been enhanced with support for Telegram IM. - For this reason, the 'deps' section has two new packages: telegram-qt and - telepathy-morse and one recompiled package: telepathy-qt5. -- The 'deps' section was expanded with an updated 'gpgme' package which - replaces the older gpgme in Slackware. Telepathy and Kwallet need the new - gpgmepp functionality in gpgme. For that reason a gpgmepp tarball will - no longer ship with future releases of KDE Applications. - -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, telegram-qt, - telepathy-glib, telepathy-farstream, telepathy-haze, telepathy-gabble, - 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 . -- Also worth mentioning: the KF5 ports of ktorrent, partition-manager and - skanlite can be found in the kde/applications-extra directory. Also kjots, - previously contained in KDEPIM, is separated into its own package in the - kde/applications-extra directory. - -NOTE: -If you install a 32bit program on a 64bit Slackware computer with multilib -and that program needs legacy system tray support (think of Skype for -instance), you will have to grab the 32-bit version of Slackware's -'libdbusmenu-qt' and my ktown-deps package 'sni-qt', and run the -'convertpkg-compat32 -i' command on them to create 'compat32' versions of these -packages. Then install both 'libdbusmenu-qt-compat32' and 'sni-qt-compat32'. -Those two are mandatory addons for displaying system tray icons of 32bit -binaries in 64bit multilib Plasma5. - -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. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -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 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 - # removepkg kdevelop-php - # removepkg kdevelop-php-docs - ..or instead of the above, simply '# slackpkg remove kde' and de-select - the packages you want to keep (amarok, calligra, k3b etc). - -Alternativly, in case you are already using an older release of my KDE 5 -packages, you need to look up that particular release in the list right below -(for instance: KDE 5_16.08) and then apply the actions shown for that KDE 5 -release *and* all more recent releases, i.e. work your way back up to this -paragraph. Here we go: - -If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_16.11 installed: -- Upgrade to KDE 5_16.12 - Remove the packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_16.12: - * removepkg baloo - * removepkg baloo-widgets - -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. - -NOTE: -The example commands are for Slackware -current but you -can use these commands for Slackware 14.2 as well by replacing the /current/ -string with /14.2/ in the example commandlines below: - -NOTE: -Instead of using the host alien.slackbook.org/alien/ktown/ you can pick any -mirror like bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/ because a mirror may be faster. - -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. - - # rsync -av rsync://alien.slackbook.org/alien/ktown/current/5/ 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/ 5/ -If you want only the 32-bit packages: - # rsync -av --exclude=x86_64 rsync://alien.slackbook.org/alien/ktown/current/5/ 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/ 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 - - # cd 5/deps/telepathy - # ./telepathy.SlackBuild - # cd - - -Be prepared to wait a *long* time since this will compile a new Qt5 package -among others. The finished packages will be stored in /tmp and will already -have been installed/upgraded automatically. - -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 ! -Reboot your computer and login to a Plasma session. - -============================================================================== - Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 09-dec-2016 -- cgit v1.2.3