I have been upgrading from Sid. So far, what I have is working with some deficiencies. But working.
> Am Donnerstag, 30. Juli 2015, 22:34:55 schrieb Gabriel Corona: > > Hi, > > Hello, > yeah, I am still trying to fix it. The problem is, that many version 5 > packages are still not in testing. Instead of this, the repo-maintainers > removed many version-4-packages, so you cannot go back. Sigh! I hope, they > will put it back, as at the moment, KDE is fully unusable. I tried to > install from sid, but the same problem here: packages missing, bad > versions, same pita. > > Somebody told, to use the repo from aptosid, these shall run. > > Hope this will be fixed soon. > > Best > > Hans > > > In fact, I did the update yesterday. It was quite painful but it's now > > > > working OK-ish: > > * You need to move all the plasma packages to the version 5 (I'm > > > > using testing so I had to force the packar manager to use them). > > > > * Check that you have powerdevil, plasma-desktop, kdeartwork, etc in > > > > version 5. > > > > * Purge the old plasma packages. > > > > * You need to restart the session (otheriwse it's compltely broken); > > > > * I added a `kwin` script in my path (doing 'exec kwin_init "$@"). > > > > It's probably not needed if you have updated all your packages but > > at some point I did not have window decoration and adding this > > fixed it. It was probably because I was still using some Plasma 4 > > packages. > > > > * I had to manually launch kbuildsycoca5 (otherwise systemsettings > > > > wouldn't display any configuration panel). > > > > Some remaining issues: > > * systemsettings segaults sometimes but it's mostly working. > > > > * There is not support for XEmbed systray by design: xchat, hexchat, > > > > nm-applet, etc. are quite broken. We're supposed to fill a lot of > > bugs in a log of packages in order to have SNI support in the > > applications. I used trayer [1] in order to have a systray. > > > > Good luck! > > > > [1] http://www.gabriel.urdhr.fr/2015/07/29/i-can-has-systray/ > > > > -- > > Gabriel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/4062598.uTRqIHLhMR@dovidhalevi
