Some package updates for KDE 4.6.5
My KDE 4.6.5 post from a few weeks back had a few comments about a non-working kcalc. Also, the KDE release team updated all the language tarballs for KDE 4.6.5 – after first renewing the broken ‘nl’ sources apparently the other language sources had issues too.
So, I rebuilt all the KDEI packages (the language packs) using the new sources. And I rebuilt the kdeutils package using several patches for kcalc.
Go get them. If you had the aforementioned issues they might be solved by these updated packages.
For instance at http://alien.slackbook.org/ktown/4.6.5/ or http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/4.6.5/ .
Eric
Posted: 26 July, 2011 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: kde46
Comments
Comment from Hans
Posted: July 27, 2011 at 09:09
After installing the packages my KDE no longer responds to me closing the lid and when I plug in a USB stick, it fails to mount it (looks similar to previous poster). What did I forget to do?
Comment from firekage
Posted: July 27, 2011 at 11:19
I can’t download packages using rsync. I paste command from readme and than i get:
@ERROR: Unknown module ‘alien-kde’
rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1516) [Receiver=3.0.8]
What’s wrong?
Comment from dolphin77
Posted: July 27, 2011 at 11:25
correct the path to your local folder structure. This should work:
rsync -avr –delete rsync://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/4.6.5/x86_64 /home/Soft/alien/ktown/4.6.5/
Comment from alienbob
Posted: July 27, 2011 at 11:53
@dolphin77,firekage, this is about the rsync URI “rsync://alien.slackbook.org/alien-kde/” no longer working.
Robby Workman created a new rsync module for me on alien.slackbook.org: “rsync://alien.slackbook.org/alien/”
You can now access my ktown stuff through rsync://alien.slackbook.org/alien/ktown/ and multilib files through rsync://alien.slackbook.org/alien/multilib/
Unfortunately he also deleted the original “rsync://alien.slackbook.org/alien-kde/” module… which was not supposed to happen. I have asked him to restore that rsync module.
Eric
Comment from firekage
Posted: July 27, 2011 at 12:58
Thanks, now it works.
Comment from witchlord
Posted: July 27, 2011 at 16:56
Эрик- молодчина! Спасибо за труды!!! 
Comment from witchlord
Posted: July 27, 2011 at 16:57
Эрик- молодчина! Спасибо за труды!!! Слакварь рулит!!!
Comment from pralat
Posted: July 27, 2011 at 20:52
Thanks, man!
And now, i’m waiting for kde 4.7 packages ;]
Greets.
Comment from Hans
Posted: July 28, 2011 at 16:24
What I forgot, maybe this helps somebody:
1 – in runlevel 3, start the GUI using ‘init 4′, not ‘startx’
2 – enable AUDIT and AUDITSYSCALLS in the kernelconfig
Both are needed to get ConsoleKit to work properly.
Comment from escaflown
Posted: July 29, 2011 at 17:44
Hi Eric. Are you going to bless us with KDE SC 4.7 ?
Comment from fogie
Posted: November 17, 2011 at 08:40
Eric,
I’m about to install 4.6.5 on my test box and I had one question. The readme mentions that hal is no longer required, does that mean that I must disable hal completely on the system? Thank you.
Comment from alienbob
Posted: November 17, 2011 at 12:49
Hi Fogie
HAL is no longer used by KDE, it is optional which means the new KDE will use it in addition to udisks/upower.
HAL does not _have_ to be disabled by you, but you can always try what happens if you do “chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.hald” and reboot.
Other subsystems (like Slackware’s XFCE and probably the other WM’s as well) still depend on HAL.
If you disable HAL by setting its rc script to non-executable, I would _not_ go as far as to remove the hal package completely.
Eric
Comment from gbschenkel
Posted: July 27, 2011 at 01:31
Hey Eric, do you know if your packages have some issue with xsane? maybe polkit packages, i don’t know, i can’t get permission to use scanner as user, only as root. The device don’t detect using a user account. Cheers and thank for the kde packages !