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Riker

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Registered: 2024-03-09

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[solved] KDE KWin and Plasma dependencies

KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.5
Qt Version 6.8.2

Qt6-tools is required by KWin and Plasma-Workspace, so I received installation of:

• Qt Assistant

• Qt D-Bus Viewer

• Qt Linguist

• Qt Widgets Designer

We can reverse this condition, as I have no interest in using Qt editing software.

$ sudo pacman -R qt6-tools
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing qt6-tools breaks dependency 'qt6-tools' required by kwin
:: removing qt6-tools breaks dependency 'qt6-tools' required by plasma-workspace

Last edited by Riker (2025-02-09 15:13:07)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [solved] KDE KWin and Plasma dependencies

Instead of posting a PSA here where it will get completely lost and ignored, file a bug against those packages.
This sounds like a package bug introduced w/ the 6.0 shift, qt6-tools are tools for Qt development and of no particular use for regular users.

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Riker

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Registered: 2024-03-09

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Re: [solved] KDE KWin and Plasma dependencies

Thanks seth
Here is Nate Graham's response on discuss.kde
https://discuss.kde.org/t/kwin-and-plas … 27?u=riker

Knowing that qt5-tools had not been installed in the past, I confess that yesterday, I performed a forced removal of qt6-tools (-Rdd)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [solved] KDE KWin and Plasma dependencies

So it's basically to qdbus, which is a handy tool but not necessary - just that this is not resolvable downstream (except for maybe kwin?) since the tool is actuall used (plasma-workspace would be eysy to fix using dbus-send)

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