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/ :-) -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20200401/37a756bb/attachment-0006.sig>