CentOS Stream has recently been updated to include the updated qt5-5.12.5 that will be part of RHEL 8.2. The qt5-5.12.* releases are the LTS version of qt5, we this very good news.
The problem is that the KDE packages in EPEL were built on qt5-5.11.*, and many of them won't install on 5.12.
I have rebuilt KDE for RHEL 8.2 x86_64 and have it in my Fedora people area. I have updated all the added qt5 packages to be 5.12.*, to match the qt5-5.12 in RHEL 8.2. I have also updated most of the plasma packages to 5.18.*. This is the corresponding plasma LTS release that goes with qt5-5.12. I have also updated most of the kf5 packages to 5.67.* / 19.12 . There is no LTS release for the kf5 packages, there were the latest at the time I was rebuilding them.
In summary, this is a new shiny KDE Plasma Desktop.
It would be great if people could test it before RHEL 8.2 / CentOS 8.2 comes out.
How to try it out.
1 - Install CentOS-Stream http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/8-stream/isos/x86_64/ 2 - Install the config for my KDE on Stream repo wget-O /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel8-beta-kde.repo https://tdawson.fedorapeople.org/epel8/kde/rhel8-beta-kde.repo 3 - Setup EPEL configs rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm 4 - Enable Stream-PowerTools, and disable non-stream repos dnf config-manager --enable Stream-PowerTools dnf config-manager --disable AppStream dnf config-manager --disable BaseOS dnf config-manager --disable extras 5 - Install KDE Plasma Desktop dnf group install kde-desktop (Optional) dnf group install kde-media (Optional) dnf group install kde-apps 6 - If installed from GNOME, reload gdm systemctl reload gdm 7 - If installed from minimal install, setup graphical boot systemctl set-default graphical.target systemctl enable sddm -f
Give it a try, and let me know of any bugs. Thank You Troy Dawson
On 31/03/2020 22:36, Troy Dawson wrote:
CentOS Stream has recently been updated to include the updated qt5-5.12.5 that will be part of RHEL 8.2. The qt5-5.12.* releases are the LTS version of qt5, we this very good news.
The problem is that the KDE packages in EPEL were built on qt5-5.11.*, and many of them won't install on 5.12.
I have rebuilt KDE for RHEL 8.2 x86_64 and have it in my Fedora people area. I have updated all the added qt5 packages to be 5.12.*, to match the qt5-5.12 in RHEL 8.2. I have also updated most of the plasma packages to 5.18.*. This is the corresponding plasma LTS release that goes with qt5-5.12. I have also updated most of the kf5 packages to 5.67.* / 19.12 . There is no LTS release for the kf5 packages, there were the latest at the time I was rebuilding them.
In summary, this is a new shiny KDE Plasma Desktop.
It would be great if people could test it before RHEL 8.2 / CentOS 8.2 comes out.
How to try it out.
1 - Install CentOS-Stream http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/8-stream/isos/x86_64/ 2 - Install the config for my KDE on Stream repo wget-O /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel8-beta-kde.repo https://tdawson.fedorapeople.org/epel8/kde/rhel8-beta-kde.repo 3 - Setup EPEL configs rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm 4 - Enable Stream-PowerTools, and disable non-stream repos dnf config-manager --enable Stream-PowerTools dnf config-manager --disable AppStream dnf config-manager --disable BaseOS dnf config-manager --disable extras 5 - Install KDE Plasma Desktop dnf group install kde-desktop (Optional) dnf group install kde-media (Optional) dnf group install kde-apps 6 - If installed from GNOME, reload gdm systemctl reload gdm 7 - If installed from minimal install, setup graphical boot systemctl set-default graphical.target systemctl enable sddm -f
Give it a try, and let me know of any bugs. Thank You Troy Dawson
Thanks a lot Troy .. maybe worth adding on https://blog.centos.org ? Can be useful for people who wanted to use KDE on CentOS 8 and Stream.
.... and by the way .... (look at the date though) ... can we have this one in Stream ? https://knome.org/
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