On 19/09/2016 17:14, Tobias C. Berner wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 19 September 2016 at 00:54, Adriaan de Groot <gr...@kde.org
> <mailto:gr...@kde.org>> wrote:
>
> On Monday 19 September 2016 08:45:39 Graham Menhennitt wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm new to this and would like to test some KF5 stuff. I'm running
> > FreeBSD stable-11 on AMD64. Could somebody please tell me how to get
> > started.
> >
> > I know that I have to get the SVN repo from area51. But what's
> the next
> > step? Do I copy that over the top of a standard ports repo? Or
> do I have
> > to merge things somehow? And then what - "cd /usr/ports/x11/kde;
> make"?
>
> - Get area51. Get the plasma5/ branch, because it's where the
> current state-
> of-the-art lives.
> - (optional) get a separate ports checkout somewhere
> - in the plasma5/ checkout, run
> $ sh Tools/scripts/kdemerge -a /path/to/ports
> This will merge all the KDE area51 ports into that ports tree
> (which is why
> you might want to use a separate ports checkout, so it's easy to
> undo).
> - For the biggest effect, build x11/kde5
> - It might be good to switch off your display manager (if you
> have one already
> on your FreeBSD system) and using startx for a bit. You probably
> just need
> exec /usr/local/bin/startkde in .xinitrc (note that the plasma5
> branch shuffles
> some KDE4 ports around, and what used to be startkde becomes
> startkde4).
>
> There are also packages provided by swills@ which might be the fastest
> way to
> give it a go:
> There is a script to add the repo here [if I picked the right one]:
> https://gist.github.com/swills/8a9a9f8a529256f134830c2a1476db0c
> or you can of course also manually add/modify a repo.conf.
>
>
>
> > Is there a list of what I can expect to work and what won't?
>
> I think tcb uses plasma5 on FreeBSD as his primary desktop, so
> "most" things
> apparently work. I've got to admit to sticking with KDE4 desktop,
> mostly out
> of inertia.
>
> Indeed I do :) -- things mostly seem to work.
>
>
>
> [ade]
>
>
> mfg Tobias
>
Thanks Tobias and Adriaan. I'll give it a try.
Thanks,
Graham
