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