[CentOS-devel] New KDE available for testing on CentOS Stream

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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Fabian Arrotin
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