Hi all, Decided to give kf5 a go on my system. I was wondering, do I have to go back to kdepim4? I get a message that the new akonadi needs qt5-webengine, which hasn't been ported yet.
Thanks, DMK On Sep 19, 2016 3:14 AM, "Tobias C. Berner" <tcber...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Hi > > On 19 September 2016 at 00:54, Adriaan de Groot <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 >
