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#1 2014-07-16 19:32:22

Strider
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How to install plasma next

I want to try out plasma next.
I already installed kf5 and kf5-aids from official repositories and the plasma-next package group from kde-unstable.
However the group only contains kwin and oxygen ... I know this is not enough since I tried out plasma-next (which didn't work btw) from AUR before.
Note that I don't have kde4 installed at all. I assume kde-frameworks and plasma-next should be enough ?
Where are all the other packeges needed for plasma-next ?

Thanks


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#2 2014-07-16 19:59:46

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Re: How to install plasma next

Are you using the [kde-testing] repository, setup as described here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KD … e_releases


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#3 2014-07-16 20:11:33

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Re: How to install plasma next

It is not ready yet, it will probably be announced in the Announcements forum when it is.

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#4 2014-07-16 20:35:46

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Re: How to install plasma next

Here's a thread about KDE Framworks 5 if that's any help.


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#5 2014-07-16 20:56:07

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Re: How to install plasma next

i tried the same thing, thinking i could play around with it w/o having to compile everything, but didn't get anywhere either. following this blog post: http://blog.andreascarpino.it/kf5-offic … -for-arch/ everything installs fine, but even after exporting everything as stated and calling "kwin --replace" -- nothing happens. (except that i messed up my 'activities' from earlier, which i don't really care about.)

haven't got enough time to get into this deeper now; rather wait until it becomes 'arch mainstream'...

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#6 2014-07-17 00:10:13

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Re: How to install plasma next

All you need to do is install plasma-desktop from the AUR after installing kf5, kf5-aids, and plasma-next (which actually doesn't carry plasma-next ironically).

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#7 2014-07-17 00:55:50

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Re: How to install plasma next

thanks a lot for removing my confusion after reading through most of the other related forum posts. didn't work as i thought at first, w/o compiling most of plasma-next myself, but these AUR packages make that very easy. it's still going on, but so far everything works smoothly. no need to edit pkgbuilds, per example.

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#8 2014-07-17 03:18:40

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Re: How to install plasma next

works well, even  though most apps except plasma-desktop, kwin, etc., are still present in their 4.13.x versions, using those lib's. after reading the other forum threads i expected to have to create my own .desktop file, but that's been taken care of. in the KWIN menu, KF5 shows up as plain "plasma," as opposed to plasma-desktop, which i assume loads 14.3, hopefully still working, but i don't see any reason why it shouldn't.

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#9 2014-07-17 09:25:12

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Re: How to install plasma next

mmstick wrote:

All you need to do is install plasma-desktop from the AUR after installing kf5, kf5-aids, and plasma-next (which actually doesn't carry plasma-next ironically).

This moment, plasma-next is disappeared form kde-unstable, but plasma-desktop from AUR provides both kwin and oxygen (of plasma-next group) on their 5.x versions. If you try to install oxygen after the kde-unstable repo is enabled, you get oxygen 4.97.0-1, so if you foolishly (like I did) "upgrade" oxygen from kde-unstable, you will end up with a broken plasma 5 system. kwin from from kde-unstable is the same version as is in plasma-desktop package.

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#10 2014-07-17 10:26:05

phanisvara
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Re: How to install plasma next

hm, i installed both kwin & oxygen from [kde-unstable] first, then plasma-desktop from AUR. this accepted the installed version of oxygen and there were no problems, oxygen wasn't replaced by the AUR version. i think these version no.'s are in rapid movement at the moment. peace will come once everything is in unstable i guess...

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#11 2014-07-17 14:32:42

phanisvara
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Re: How to install plasma next

i found this quite interesting in this regard. originally i switched to 'breeze,' but remedied that after reading:
http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2 … ecoration/

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