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Nikolai5

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From: North West, England, UK

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Upgrade process be for moving from Plasma 5 to 6? [solved]

Plasma 6 is on the horizon, and I was wondering what the process of upgrading to it will be once it is released. Will it automatically replace what we are currently using now via package updates, as I can see some packages specifically have "-5" in them, and some don't?

Or will the process be more manual, requuiring us to remove and install the required packages to move from one major version to the next?

edit: added solved to title, but had to cut down title to do so.

Last edited by Nikolai5 (2024-02-01 16:03:00)

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c00ter

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From: Alaskan in Washington State

Registered: 2014-08-28

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Re: Upgrade process be for moving from Plasma 5 to 6? [solved]

Arch Linux is a rolling-release Linux distribution.

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Upgrade process be for moving from Plasma 5 to 6? [solved]

There are going to be things that won't yet be ported to Qt6 which will remain on the kf5 libs, everything else should be upgraded and their kf dependencies relevantly readjusted to depend on the corresponding kf6 versions (i.e. the ones that will lack the 5 suffix)

Nikolai5

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From: North West, England, UK

Registered: 2024-01-27

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Re: Upgrade process be for moving from Plasma 5 to 6? [solved]

There are going to be things that won't yet be ported to Qt6 which will remain on the kf5 libs, everything else should be upgraded and their kf dependencies relevantly readjusted to depend on the corresponding kf6 versions (i.e. the ones that will lack the 5 suffix)

Thanks, that makes sense.

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amorgan

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Registered: 2024-02-28

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Re: Upgrade process be for moving from Plasma 5 to 6? [solved]

When the Plasma 6 ported to ArchLinux, or how to upgrade?

V1del

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Re: Upgrade process be for moving from Plasma 5 to 6? [solved]

It's still in testing and getting prepared, probably soon/in the next few days.

amorgan

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Re: Upgrade process be for moving from Plasma 5 to 6? [solved]

Thanks, It's ported today. I have received the Plasma 6 updates about 800mb