From 88b0dc3c075b27ced97ed182c685eb6cdb7e883d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Hameleers Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 00:03:02 +0100 Subject: Release of KDE 5_17.12 for Slackware - PKGLIST updated with the list of available packages in this release (limited to slackware-current). - README updated. - README.testing added for 'testing' repository. --- README.5_17.12 | 379 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 379 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.5_17.12 (limited to 'README.5_17.12') diff --git a/README.5_17.12 b/README.5_17.12 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..df91530 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.5_17.12 @@ -0,0 +1,379 @@ +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. + +Upgrading from the previous 5_17.11 is not completely trivial so read on. + +KDE-5_17.12 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. +- Frameworks update is a stability release, see: + https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.41.0.php . +- Plasma also is a stability update, see + https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.11.4.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packages: + libkface (unmaintained), blogilo (unmaintained and broken), jovie (replaced + by Qt Speech), kaccessible (superseded by Qt5 functionality), ksaneplugin + (no one used it), kde-runtime (split up), kremotecontrol, kppp, kfilereplace, + klinkstatus, kopete and kscd (I did not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. +- 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. + +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. + * freerdp: access RDP servers through krdc. + * openconnect: support for Cisco's SSL VPN. + All of these can be found in my regular package repository. +- There's no more need to install any KDE4 package from Slackware 14.2. +- 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, accountsservice, cfitsio, cracklib, ddcutil, dvdauthor, + frei0r-plugins, grantlee-qt4, hack-font-ttf, id3lib, json-glib, lensfun, + libappindicator, libburn, libdbusmenu-gtk, libdbusmenu-qt5, libdmtx, + libindicator, libinput, libpwquality, libwacom, libxkbcommon, lmdb, mlt, + ninja, noto-font-ttf, noto-cjk-font-ttf, opencv, polkit-qt5-1, qca-qt5, + qrencode, qt-gstreamer, qt5, qt5-webkit, qtav, sni-qt, vid.stab + and wayland. + As a side note, libinput and libwacom have become part of Slackware-current. + Technically that makes them redundant in the above listing, however I still + compile Plasma5 packages for Slackware 14.2 so I left them in. + The phonon and poppler packages were extended so that they now support + Qt5 as well as Qt4. + Note that the SBo version of 'frei0r-plugins' package is called 'frei0r'. + If you have that SBo package installed, remove it. +- 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 . +- 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 +and that program needs legacy system tray support (think of Steam 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. + +NOTE: +If you had installed KDE 4 as your default desktop previously, 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 kdepim + # removepkg kdepimlibs + # removepkg kdev-python + # removepkg kdevelop-php + # removepkg kdevelop-php-docs + ..or instead of the above, simply '# slackpkg remove kde'. + +Alternatively, 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_17.10) 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. Note that some of the old KDE package names were obsoleted along +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_17.11 installed: +- Upgrade to KDE 5_17.12 + Remove the packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_17.12: + [applications] + # removepkg libkface blogilo jovie kaccessible ksaneplugin kde-runtime + # removepkg kremotecontrol kppp kfilereplace klinkstatus kopete + [kde4] + # removepkg akonadi4 katepart4 kdepimlibs4 kfilemetadata konsolepart4 + # removepkg korundum kross-interpreters libkdegames4 libkexiv2_4 + # removepkg libkmahjongg4 libksane4 oktetapart4 perlkde perlqt pykde4 + # removepkg qtruby smokegen smokekde smokeqt + [kde4-extragear] + # removepkg audiocd-kio4 kio-mtp libkcddb4 libkcompactdisc4 + [kdei] + # removepkg /var/log/packages/kde-l10n-* + +If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_17.10 installed: +- No further actions are needed. + +If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_17.09 installed: +- No further actions are needed. + +If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_17.07 installed: +- No further actions are needed. + +If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_17.06 installed: +- No further actions are needed. + +If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_17.05_02 installed: +- No further actions are needed. + +If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_17.05 installed: +- No further actions are needed. + +If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_17.04 installed: +- No further actions are needed. + +If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_17.03 installed: +- Upgrade to KDE 5_17.04 + Remove the packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_17.04: + # removepkg kajongg + # removepkg kommander + # removepkg pim-storage-service-manager + +If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_17.02 installed: +- No further actions are needed. + +If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_17.01 installed: +- No further actions are needed. + +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 kdgantt2 + # 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 + # removepkg kde-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. + +If you have my 'ktown' set older than KDE 5_16.01 installed: +- Really? + +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/ +string with /14.2/ (provided there is a suitable 'ktown' release available +for Slackware 14.2 of course): + +NOTE: +Instead of using the mirror host http://slackware.nl/alien-kde/ (its rsync URI +is rsync://slackware.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/), you could choose the alternative +mirror http://slackware.uk/people/alien-kde/ (its rsync URI is +rsync://slackware.uk/people/alien-kde/) + +NOTE: +If you use 'slackpkg' to automate your upgrades, be sure to blacklist my +custom packages or else slackpkg will always try to replace my packages +with the stock Slackware versions if the package names are identical. +As an example, you can add the following lines to the file +"/etc/slackpkg/blacklist" to prevent this unintentional downgrading to KDE4: + # These three lines will blacklist all SBo, alien and multilib packages: + [0-9]+_SBo + [0-9]+alien + [0-9]+compat32 +If on the other hand you are using the 'slackpkg+' extension for slackpkg +then your "/etc/slackpkg/blacklist" file should *not* contain the above +lines! The slackpkg+ extension enables the use of 3rd-party repositories +with slackpkg and then Plasma5 package upgrades will be handled properly. + + +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 -Hav rsync://slackware.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/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. + +If you want only the 64-bit packages: + # rsync -Hav --exclude=x86 rsync://slackware.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/current/5/ 5/ +If you want only the 32-bit packages: + # rsync -Hav --exclude=x86_64 rsync://slackware.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/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: + + 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 + + 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 -Hav rsync://slackware.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/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 hopefully (have not tested the script +'updates.SlackBuild' in a long time) as easy as this: + # 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 / 21-dec-2017 -- cgit v1.2.3