On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 2:38 AM Andy Hall <andyjohnhall at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Message: 8 > > Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:36:45 -0700 > > From: Troy Dawson <tdawson at redhat.com> > > To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." <centos-devel at centos.org> > > Subject: [CentOS-devel] New KDE available for testing on CentOS Stream > > Message-ID: > > <CAKndyUTRpN_fsqs2o1CGbnGSOMAtmOso=rJS3mjxp4masnqQhw at mail.gmail.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > > > 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. > > Hey Troy now the qt packages have been updated to 5.12 do we have a > date for the 8.2 release as I'd like to just "dnf groupinstall KDE" > for a shiny new ( stable ) desktop but right now this will fail :-( > > Thanks ! Actually only half of it will fail. If you have EPEL8 installed dnf group install kde-desktop will succeed. But I will be the first to admit that it's not bug free. While it hasn't crashed on me, there are a few bugs I know about, and see, that are fixed in the updated, stable release. Troy