KDE just announced the KDE Frameworks 6.25.0, and earlier this week they came with Plasma 6.6.4.
I built the packages for those new releases – targeting Slackware -current of course. Along with these updates I also refreshed KleverNotes, Krita, Kstars and Okteta to their latest versions.
You can find the packages in my ‘ktown‘ repository: https://slackware.nl/alien-kde/current/testing/ with the sources in https://slackware.nl/alien-kde/source/testing/ and the changes tracked in git: https://git.slackware.nl/ktown/log/.
If you are using the slackpkg+ extension to slackpkg and have already switched from Slackware’s Plasma5 to my Plasma6 then the upgrade to the latest set of Slackware-current packages along with the new ‘ktown‘ Plasma 6 is trivial (assuming you tagged my repository with the string “ktown” in slackpkgplus.conf):
# slackpkg update # slackpkg install-new # slackpkg install ktown # slackpkg upgrade-all
Are you still running Slackware’s own KDE Plasma5 on the other hand, it must be removed first. No clean upgrade path can be provided! Do as follows:
Use the slackpkg template provided in the package directory (https://slackware.nl/alien-kde/current/testing/plasma6_remove_plasma5.template is the online version).
The template is called ‘plasma6_remove_plasma5.template‘. This file contains the name of all original Slackware packages that need to be removed.
You can do this either using slackpkg (no slackpkg+ needed):
# cp plasma6_remove_plasma5.template /etc/slackpkg/templates # slackpkg update # slackpkg remove-template plasma6_remove_plasma5
… or else using pkgtools:
# cat plasma6_remove_plasma5.template | while read PKGNAME; do removepkg $PKGNAME ; done
And then proceed with the upgrade steps I shared higher-up.
The next major update is going to be KDE Gear 26.04 which will be the first release of KDE Gear (i.e. Applications & PIM) without dependency on Qt5 or the KDE Frameworks 5.
This move to Gear 26.04 requires some additional changes to the packages in Slackware -current itself, for which I asked Pat to assist. Let’s see what happens in the weeks to come.
Have fun and enjoy the weekend. Eric
Thanks Eric!
Installed and it’s working very well so far, no apparent issues.
Hi Eric,
Installed the updated batch and everything seems to work ok except for kde-connect which still gives wifi speed issues as wih the previous batches. Btw I found another occurrence of this issue on https://discuss.kde.org/t/erratic-wifi-speed-on-kde-plasma/43217
Although nothing to do with your work but just mentioning it.
Dik
Indeed it probably has nothing to do with packaging the KDE software. This kind of issues needs KDE bug reports so that someone can have a look at it and try to fix it.
Thanks Eric!
So far so good!
work here 😉
Just so you know, I don’t know if you want to remove “KF5”, but if so, you’ll have to rebuild “pinentry” and “subversion” without it.
Other thing, personally, I’ve also updated “mlt.”
No plans to remove KF5 yet. There’s still programs that depend on Qt5 and some of those KF5 packages.
The reason why I asked Pat to help is the amount of non-KDE packages which is going to be affected because of an upgrade to KDE Gear 26.04. That is no longer a “bolt-on” but has significant impact on Slackware. I do not want to maintain a shadow copy of too many rebuilt Slackware packages.
Hi Eric,
Would it be possible for you to add amarok to your packages?
Thanks!
Amarok is an application that I will never add to my Plasma package set.
Thanks for update
Hi Eric!
After Apr 11’s libunibreak update, spectacle and possible other apps need a rebuild.
Update. Tried to rebuild spectacle but compilation fails because it depends on libavfilter (part of ffmpeg), and linking also fails because libavfilter also depends on libunibreak.
Spectacle work fine here 😉
Perhaps you aren’t using alienbob’s restricted ffmpeg?
Right 😉
It’s my ffmpeg package which needs a rebuild, not spectacle.
I saw that your ffmpeg was rebuilt yesterday and upgraded it. Situation back to normal here. Thanks Eric!
With a bit of luck, we will have Slackware 15.1 with Plasma 6.6.6 😀
Thank you for what you do. Are there plans for an updated ktown Live image?