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_17.01 | 342 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 342 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.5_17.01 (limited to 'README.5_17.01') diff --git a/README.5_17.01 b/README.5_17.01 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bd66946 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.5_17.01 @@ -0,0 +1,342 @@ +KDE5 +==== + +Here is KDE 5_17.01 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.30.0, +Plasma 5.8.5 and Applications 16.12.1 on top of Qt 5.7.1. + +Upgrading from the previous 5_16.12 needs a bit of tender care & loving this +time. In particular, the new quarterly release of the Applications brings +a lot of change. Many packages have been added, but also many packages are +no longer part of the 'ktown' repository. Read the instructions well! + +KDE-5_17.01 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! + +Note that I am currently undecided whether I should keep on supporting +Slackware 14.2 in my 'ktown' builds. The 'ktown' repository's primary goal +has always been to do the research and development into bleeding edge +KDE software, so that integrating it into Slackware's core can be done with +the knowledge that these KDE releases have been given a good QA testing +by the community. Which means, slackware-current is the only relevant release. +Providing updates for 14.2 will probably stop, once -current has diverged too +much from 14.2 to keep it all manageable. + +What is the NEWS in this batch of updates: +- Frameworks 5.30.0 is an enhancement release and contains one new framework + compared to my previous release: prison. + See https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.30.0.php +- Plasma 5.8.5 is an incremental bug fix release for the 5.8 series. + See https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.8.5.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 16.12.1 contains many changes. In these 16.12.x releases, + some of the big packages have been split into many smaller ones: + kde-baseapps, kdepim and kdewebdev (and these three packages are gone now). + Two other packages have been removed: gpgmepp (whose functionality has been + integrated into gpgme), and kuser (for which there is no replacement and + therefore I have kept it as part of applications-extra). + Formerly part of 'kdepim', the kdgantt2 program has been removed and it is + replaced by a new package 'kdiagram'. + Another new package 'kwave' was added in 16.12.0 (which I never built). + See https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-16.12.1.php . +- I have removed kactivities, nepomuk and nepomuk-widgets from the 'kde4' + package subset. These kdelibs4-based packages are no longer used by + other packages. + I also added a package there: libcddb4 is the old kdelibs4 based version + and it is needed to keep k3b running. The latest libkcddb is Frameworks5 + based and incompatible with k3b. + Unfortunately kdepimlibs4 is still required by kopete and klinkstatus. + I had to recompile kdepimlibs4 to remove gpgme++ files that are now part + of the gpgme package. If you want to repeat this at home, make sure you + only have 'akonadi4' installed, not the newer 'akonadi' from Applications. +- In applications-extra, I upgraded calligra to the recently released + Frameworks5 based version; a recompilation would have been needed anyway + in order to ditch kactivities. The new calligra has shed some of its code + and no longer contains krita or kexi, they are developed independently now. + Flow and Stage have also been removed from the code but here the reason is + that their code is unmaintained. + Therefore I have added 'krita' as a new package. If anyone needs 'kexi' + as well, let me know so I can add it (and its dependencies) next time. + Also, partitionmanager was upgraded and is now Frameworks5 based. Note: + partitionmanager has issues using kdesu to gain root access to the disks + even though it will ask for the root password. If all actions are greyed + out, start it from the commandline with "sudo -s partitionmanager". +- The 'kdeconnect' package in plasma-extra was upgraded. +- The 'deps' section has two new packages (three in the Slackware 14.2 repo + as you can read below): libdmtx and qrencode, both of which are requirements + for the new 'kdiagram' package. + The 'libinput' package was upgraded to the same version as was recently + added to slackware-current (and compiled against the new package + 'libwacom' just like in slackware-current). Note that libinput and + libwacom are not part of the 'deps' for Slackware-current since these are + already covered by your Slackware install. +- The qt5 package was upgraded to 5.7.1, and accompanying upgrades were + done for qt5-webkit, sip and PyQt5. Note that qt5's dependencies have + increased again: it now requires libinput, libwacom, libxkbcommon. + I did not upgrade qt5 to 5.8.0 - it is too new and currently seems to have + issues with KWin. + +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 + (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, libdmtx, libindicator, libinput, libwacom, + libxkbcommon, lmdb, hack-font-ttf, ninja, noto-font-ttf, noto-cjk-font-ttf, + polkit-qt5-1, qca-qt5, qrencode, 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, skanlite and the KDE + Development Suite can be found in the kde/applications-extra directory. + Also kjots, previously contained in KDEPIM, has been 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 + * 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_16.12 installed: +- Upgrade to KDE 5_17.01 + If you are running Slackware-current, manually install or upgrade libinput + and libwacom to the Slackware versions. + Remove the packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_17.01: + * removepkg kactivities + * removepkg nepomuk + * removepkg nepomuk-widgets + * removepkg gpgmepp + * removepkg kde-baseapps kdepim kdewebdev + +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 +(downloading from a mirror will usually be much faster): + + # 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 / 26-jan-2017 -- cgit v1.2.3