Porteus KF5.1.0 Preview

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Porteus KF5.1.0 Preview

Post#1 by wread » 07 Sep 2014, 16:59

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This is aliens Bob KF5 in Porteus...

Enjoy!
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Re: Porteus KF5.1.0 Preview

Post#2 by wread » 20 Sep 2014, 12:17

Hi all!
I must apologize, but it took me so long to reproduce kf5 in Porteus.....
A couple of days, after I had made it work, I tried it without success; I forgot the hacks I had to do to start the kf5 framework.

I even got a new pendrive to load it with kf5: no luck with it. I started with Porteus 3.0.1 and made 003-kf5 instead of 003-kde, but it didn't work. I will keep hacking it until it does it!

Then I went back to my Porteus aKDEmia -aKDEmia is based on Porteus 2.0 (Slackware 14)- and tried to remember how I had done it, step for step: I had already a folder in optional/KF5/ with alien' s stuff, just transformed to xzm. All my hacks went then to "modules". I added 6 modules and one folder Xcb with the whole xcb stuff, so qt5 would work. The 6 modules are 1)gst-base, 2)gstreamer, 3)libicu51, 4)pcre, 5)gcc and 6)kf5-env (a module I made with env. variables and some symlinks).

To start KF5 I choose Text Mode and cheatcode load=KF5/, log in as root in text mode, type xconf, then xinit and finally startkde. It comes up slowly but awesome. Many things could be trimmed to make it faster, I guess (wallet, akonadi, etc.)

I think most KDE applications must be recompiled in kf5. At least I tried dolphin and it is unstable, it crashes easily....

I will try once more to make it work in Porteus 3.0.1 and when it does works, I will upload all modules for experimenters, with directions how to use it.

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Re: Porteus KF5.1.0 Preview

Post#3 by francois » 25 Sep 2014, 21:55

I am interested! :)
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Re: Porteus KF5.1.0 Preview

Post#4 by wread » 29 Sep 2014, 15:15

@francois
Re-reading alien's Bob implementation of KF5, I found that kde4 is necessary to get the framework going, that you cannot switch kf5 for kde4, and that you must use Slackware current with kde 4.14; Porteus 3.0.1 follows Slackware 14.1, so I guess that is the reason why it won't work. i think I will have to make kind of a "Porteus current" version to get it up and running correctly.

Nevertheless, I have a running version of kf5 assisted by my aKDEmia Edition of Porteus! But aKDEmia is based on Porteus 2.0 (kernel, core and xorg, with a detailed, trimmed down version of kde 4.9.5 "a la fanthom").

This is not a recommended combination and so it suffers from sicknesses and headaches: the launcher shows only the Recent apps and the Leave's. It also crashes when you click a minimized application on the panel (it starts again!) and wont react to pushing a new usb-device automatically.

So I will try a "Porteus current a la alien's bob" as next step. I will report back :)
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Re: Porteus KF5.1.0 Preview

Post#5 by beny » 29 Sep 2014, 15:34

hi wread you can use the slackware 14.1 i have kde5 and kde 4.14 on default slackware you have to change only the libxcb version if you want a complete window control

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Post#6 by wread » 29 Sep 2014, 16:51

Thanks for the tip, beny, I will do as you say!

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EDIT: @beny, I have now kde5 with complete window-control. I will upload all necessary modules, that all interested users can experiment with it.
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Re: Porteus KF5.1.0 Preview

Post#7 by wread » 05 Oct 2014, 00:41

@all
The framework for KF5 32-bits can be downloaded from here.

I just put the files in optional/KF5 . The only necessary change, is to add these lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.4 just before "exec /usr/bin/dm":

if [ -x /usr/bin/sddm ]; then
exec /usr/bin/sddm
fi

Make this change permanent, it won' t break anything if sddm is not loaded (it is in optional).

Now to start KF5, reboot in Text Mode with cheatcode load=KF5/ , login as root and type "startx": In a few seconds you will have a new desktop :Yahoo!:

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