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11-03-2020, 06:35 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Feb 2007
Distribution: Slackware64-current with KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,484
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KDE Plasma 5 Hits Testing!
It's here!
Read all about it at,
http://slackware.oregonstate.edu/sla.../ChangeLog.txt
Quote:
Tue Nov 3 22:32:22 UTC 2020
Welcome to vtown, volkerdi's friendly takeover of alienBOB's ktown Plasma 5
packages! Enormous thanks are due to alienBOB for maintaining and leading
testing of Plasma 5 on the side, even as I wore out his patience (and likely
others as well). But now this has made it into /testing and it won't be all
that long before it'll hit the main tree, so test it out and let me know if
anything broke...............
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Last edited by cwizardone; 11-03-2020 at 08:33 PM.
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11-03-2020, 06:39 PM
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#2
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Member
Registered: Jun 2006
Location: Sardis, B.C., Canada
Distribution: Slackware64 15 -current
Posts: 265
Rep: 
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So close : )
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1 members found this post helpful.
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11-03-2020, 06:40 PM
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#3
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Member
Registered: Nov 2009
Location: Kansas, USA
Distribution: Slackware64-15.0
Posts: 865
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cwizardone
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All I have to say is: SWEET!!!
Happy official Plasma 5 Slacking, y'all!!!  |
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11-03-2020, 06:41 PM
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#4
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2004
Distribution: Slackware15.0 64-Bit Desktop, Debian 11 non-free Toshiba Satellite Notebook
Posts: 4,248
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1 members found this post helpful.
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11-03-2020, 06:44 PM
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#5
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Member
Registered: Jul 2018
Location: Cincinnati USA
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 552
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been slamming refresh all day in newsboat.. howd i miss this?  |
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1 members found this post helpful.
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11-03-2020, 06:53 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2016
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 2,027
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And there was great rejoicing!
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1 members found this post helpful.
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11-03-2020, 06:58 PM
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#7
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Member
Registered: Apr 2005
Location: Oklahoma, USA
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 921
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Thank you for including kmymoney! That's one less thing I need to install from SBo.
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2 members found this post helpful.
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11-03-2020, 07:04 PM
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#8
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Member
Registered: Jul 2005
Distribution: Slackware64-current
Posts: 587
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Finally i will install plasma 5, i been waiting for this moment.
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1 members found this post helpful.
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11-03-2020, 07:45 PM
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#9
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Guru
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Canada
Distribution: Slackware (desktops), Void (thinkpad)
Posts: 7,430
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Wicked!!!!!!!!
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1 members found this post helpful.
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11-03-2020, 07:49 PM
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#10
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Member
Registered: Aug 2007
Location: Nolalu, Ontario, Canada
Distribution: Slackware64-Current
Posts: 871
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I suppose it would be foolish for this old fool to compile from source when vtown is now in testing.
Gonna install and begin testing tonight |
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2 members found this post helpful.
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11-03-2020, 07:52 PM
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#11
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Member
Registered: Jun 2004
Distribution: Slackware64
Posts: 99
Rep: 
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Wow, congrats to the slackware team for getting KDE5 in testing! This is great news.
I hope to upgrade when everything is ready for slackware 15.0 release! But first, I might want to build a new computer for slackware 15.0, if I can!
Slackware 14.2 is working very good still, for the most part. But, some new software will no longer compile on slackware 14.2. I've just had to do without some software that doesn't compile  . So, I'm really looking forward to slackware 15.0 and being able to compile stuff again, later. |
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1 members found this post helpful.
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11-03-2020, 10:07 PM
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#12
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2015
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 17
Rep:
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11-03-2020, 10:29 PM
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#13
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2016
Location: USA
Distribution: Slackware64-Current
Posts: 1,837
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Thank you Patrick! vtown is working great!
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1 members found this post helpful.
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11-03-2020, 11:42 PM
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#14
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2014
Distribution: Slackware64 15.0
Posts: 1,224
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Great news indeed  Thanks to Eric for keeping on with Plasma 5 for so long, Pat for taking it up and merging, and everyone else who tested and contributed.
I've switched one system over from ktown to vtown, it generally seems to be running nicely. Two things:
- The "failed to find gam_server" thing when starting Firefox (from an xterm) is still present for me.
- I get a blank screen with a cursor at runlevel 4 (runlevel 3 with startx is all good though). Anyone know what might cause this issue?
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3 members found this post helpful.
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11-03-2020, 11:52 PM
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#15
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2016
Location: USA
Distribution: Slackware64-Current
Posts: 1,837
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Quote:
Originally Posted by drgibbon
Great news indeed Thanks to Eric for keeping on with Plasma 5 for so long, Pat for taking it up and merging, and everyone else who tested and contributed.
I've switched one system over from ktown to vtown, it generally seems to be running nicely. Two things:
- The "failed to find gam_server" thing when starting Firefox (from an xterm) is still present for me.
- I get a blank screen with a cursor at runlevel 4 (runlevel 3 with startx is all good though). Anyone know what might cause this issue?
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If you are using slackpkg+ try
Code:
slackpkg search testing
and see if you have missed a few packages related to vtown. |
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