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author Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com>2018-02-10 19:20:50 +0100
committer Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com>2018-02-10 19:20:50 +0100
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Release of KDE 5_18.02 for SlackwareKDE-5_18.025_18.02
- PKGLIST updated with the list of available packages in this release (limited to slackware-current). - README updated. - README.testing added for 'testing' repository.
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diff --git a/README.5_18.01 b/README.5_18.02
index a5628a0..2efeadf 100644
--- a/README.5_18.01
+++ b/README.5_18.02
@@ -1,33 +1,35 @@
KDE5
====
-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.
+Here is KDE 5_18.02 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.43.0,
+Plasma 5.12.0 and Applications 17.12.2 on top of Qt 5.9.4.
-Upgrading from the previous 5_17.12 is relatively straight-forward.
+Upgrading from the previous 5_18.01 is relatively straight-forward.
-KDE-5_18.01 is meant to be installed on top of Slackware -current.
+KDE-5_18.02 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:
-Compared to last month when we said good-bye to the KDE4 legacy, there's
-nothing really exciting to report this time.
+- The 'deps' section has been graced with an updated qt5 package. I opted
+ for 5.9.4 which is the last one in the 5.9 series in the hope that Pat
+ updates to qt5-5.10 when adding Plasma5 to Slackware.
+ Also, I added two new packages here: cryptopp and cryfs. The Plasma Vault
+ requires en encryption backend and cryfs seems to be the best choice
+ (alternative backends would be encfs or tomb).
- Frameworks update is a stability release, see:
- https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.42.0.php .
-- Plasma also is a stability update, see
- https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.11.5.php .
+ https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.43.0.php .
+- Plasma is the highlight of the month. Version 5.12 is a Long Term Support
+ (LTS) release, which replaces the previous LTS version 5.8.
+ https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.12.0.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 17.12.1 is the first incremental update for the 17.12 series
+ to install it separately if you need it.
+- Applications 17.12.2 is an 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.
+ See https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-17.12.2.php .
+- In applications-extra I have upgraded calligra and added calligraplan.
Further points of interest:
- If you have a KDE4-based application that needs library support on this
@@ -46,14 +48,14 @@ Further points of interest:
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,
+ OpenAL, PyQT5, accountsservice, cfitsio, cracklib, cryptopp, cryfs, 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.
+ qrencode, qt-gstreamer, qt5, qt5-webkit, qtav, sni-qt, vid.stab and wayland.
+ As a side note, libinput libwacom and ninja 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
@@ -68,6 +70,9 @@ 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 .
+- KDEI is gone. The localizations are now embedded in each package and
+ no longer available as separate 'kdei' packages. This is a by design.
+ You will get all languages installed by default.
NOTE:
If you install a 32bit program on a 64bit Slackware computer with multilib
@@ -98,9 +103,12 @@ 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".
+Make sure you are not running KDE or even X !
+If you are running an X session, log out first to return to the console.
+If your computer boots to runlevel 4 (graphical login) you first have to go
+back to runlevel 3 (console) after logging out. Press <Ctrl><Alt><F1> to
+switch to a console, logon there, and execute the command "init 3" to
+switch from runlevel 4 to 3, thereby effectively stopping X.
If you still have a KDE 4 installed, it must be removed first. No clean
upgrade path can be provided! Do as follows:
@@ -133,6 +141,9 @@ 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_18.01 installed:
+- No further actions are needed.
+
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:
@@ -352,4 +363,4 @@ 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 / 18-jan-2018
+ Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 09-feb-2018
diff --git a/README.5_18.01.testing b/README.5_18.02.testing
index 06a582c..f13f92a 100644
--- a/README.5_18.01.testing
+++ b/README.5_18.02.testing
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
KDE5
====
-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.
+Here is KDE 5_18.02_testing for Slackware, consisting of the
+KDE Frameworks 5.43.0, Plasma 5.12.0 and Applications 17.12.2
+on top of Qt 5.9.4.
-Upgrading from 5_17.12_testing is straight-forward.
+Upgrading from 5_18.01_testing is straight-forward.
-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
+KDE-5_18.02_testing is meant to be installed on top of slackware -current.
+It is different from the 'regular' KDE_5.18.02 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
@@ -44,7 +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_18.01' and 'KDE-5_18.01_testing':
+The differences between 'KDE-5_18.02' and 'KDE-5_18.02_testing':
Added packages:
Deps:
@@ -84,4 +84,4 @@ Wayland working on Slackware. Otherwise, the 'latest' release is what
you need.
==============================================================================
- Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 18-jan-2018
+ Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 10-feb-2018