KDE and plasma 5

babel · 2014-07-31 17:21:29

Hello everyone, since Plasma 5.0 and Frameworks 5.0 are out, I wonder if Arch is going to smoothly upgrade the KDE package or if it's going to require a clean install or something more advanced. I don't want to rush into the new version installing kf5, kf5-aids and plasma-desktop (as suggest the wiki) without knowing everything is going to be fine, so I ask:

Would it be better to wait, install the packages the wiki suggest or do a clean install? What do you think? Thank you.

karol · 2014-07-31 17:28:16

What KDE package do you have in mind?

babel wrote:

if it's going to require a clean install or something more advanced.

What?

arojas · 2014-07-31 17:34:12

Plasma 5 packages in AUR are installed in /opt for now so they are coinstallable with KDE4. At some point it the future I guess it will move to /usr and will replace KDE4, but for now you can install and try it while keeping KDE4 installed at the same time.

babel · 2014-07-31 19:27:42

Thank you for your responses.

Karol, I mean the meta-package named KDE, but I according to arojas I could try plasma 5 and If I notice some inconsistency simply remove it. Thanks.

karol · 2014-07-31 21:24:37

Phew, I thought you meant reinstallation of Arch - "or something more advanced" - and I simply couldn't figure out what would that be :-)

Buddlespit · 2014-08-01 00:21:13

I took it to mean "Will we have to surgically remove KDE4 to install and use KDE5". I've been wondering the same thing. Arojas answered it.

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KDE and plasma 5

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