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). > 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. [ade]