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KDE4.8
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This is the KDE Software Compilation 4.8 for Slackware-current.

An obvious change compared to Slackware's KDE releases before 4.7.x is the
modularization of KDE into more and smaller components.
There used to be 23 source tarballs for the core of KDE 4.6, which resulted
in 23 binary packages, but the core of KDE 4.7.x is distributed as 71 source
tarballs, resulting in 67 Slackware packages!  KDE 4.8.0 has even more
fragmentation, with 90 source tarballs for the core.
The KDE SlackBuild script has been extensively rewritten (in the spirit of
the modular X.org SlackBuild script) to allow for a modular build of KDE in
Slackware.  You as the enduser of these packages will have more control over
what to install or leave out if your primary interest lies with KDE's
applications, not with the desktop environment. 

KDE4 no longer uses HAL, starting with KDE 4.6.0.  And since the version of
X.Org found in Slackware 13.37 does not use HAL either (likewise for
XFCE 4.8.x), adding KDE 4.8.x and XFCE 4.8.x to Slackware in future will be a
big step towards removal of HAL altogether.  HAL is no longer maintained by
its developer, and has been superceded by udisks.

My set of KDE SC 4.8.0 packages replaces the older version of KDE (4.5.5)
which comes with Slackware.  There are several packages in the "deps"
directory that you need as well; you will find updates to original Slackware
packages as well as completely new packages (grantlee, herqq, libatasmart,
libbluedevil, libssh, phonon-gstreamer, phonon-xine, sg3-utils, udisks and
upower are new packages for instance).  Upgrading/installing these "deps"
packages is required for the proper functioning of KDE 4.8.

There are some applications I added to the KDE 4.8 collection that are new
to Slackware as well.  They are no 'dependencies' so technically you do not
have to install them, but bluedevil (a bluetooth manager), kplayer (a mplayer
front-end), quanta (the web development environment) and wicd-kde (an applet
for managing WICD) are very much worth your while.

You have to run Slackware-current in order to use these packages! There has
been an incompatible update of the "glibc" package since the release of
Slackware 13.37.

For backwards compatibility, I will keep the packages for KDE 4.6.5 available
in my repository as well.  They work fine on Slackware 13.37 as well as
-current. KDE 4.6.5 will give you a very stable desktop.

NOTE:
* Possible issue when rebuilding these packages on 13.37: the new kwin seems
  to require at least mesa-7.10 and this is not installed by default.
  Slackware 13.37 has mesa-7.10.2 in the /testing directory though.  Use that.

NOTE:
About the language packs (KDEI) - for Slackware 32-bit as well as 64-bit:
* KDE localizations (language packs) are available in "x86_64/kdei". You only
  need one package (for your own language).  Don't let the "x86_64" in the
  directory name fool you, the language packs are useable on both platforms.
* Like in Slackware's own KDEI 4.5.5 packages, I have merged the language files
  of kdepim-4.4.10 into the KDEI packages, so that you can use the PIM apps
  like kmail in your own language if you decide to keep Slackware's version of
  kdepim and kdepim-runtime.
* If you decide to install kdepim/kdepim-runtime 4.8 Beta2, you will find that
  these packages include their own translations/localizations.

NOTE:
About PIM (kdepim and kdepim-runtime) packages:
* The PIM software release versions are finally synchronized with the versions
  of KDE SC again (since the release of 4.7.0).  Not everybody is happy with
  this new version so you may want to stick with 4.4.10.

NOTE:
I have added beta versions of the kdevelop, kdevelop-pg-qt (new for 4.8.0) and
kdevplatform packages.  They are required if you want to try out Quanta Plus
(the Web Development Environment) which I added as well.
Bleeding edge == no guarantees about their useability!  But I would like
your feedback.

NOTE:
Slackware's own polkit-kde-1 package *must* be removed before you start using
KDE 4.8.0 !
Its functionality was split out into two new packages: polkit-kde-agent-1 and
polkit-kde-kcmodules-1, both of which you can find in my 'kde' directory.

NOTE:
I have moved the two packages "polkit-qt-1" and "libktorrent" from the "kde"
to the "deps" directory since these packages are not really tied to KDE and
should be seen as a dependency like all the other packages inside "deps".
For instance, having libktorrent already available when compiling "kdenetwork"
will enhance Kget with torrent download capability.

NOTE:
I have added a directory "test", containing a small set of packages which
you can optionally install if you want to try out NetworkManager instead of
WICD as your graphical network connection manager.
Please read http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/integrating-networkmanager-into-kde-while-keeping-the-gnome-out/
for more information about integrating NM into KDE.
If you want to start Networkmanager at boot instead of WICD, then replace the
following lines in '/etc/rc.d/rc.M'
  # Start wicd:
  if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.wicd ]; then
    sh /etc/rc.d/rc.wicd start
  fi
with these lines:
  # Start wicd or NetworkManager:
  if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.wicd ]; then
    sh /etc/rc.d/rc.wicd start
  elif [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager ]; then
    sh /etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager start
  fi
This way, you can choose which of the two network managers you want to use by
making their startup script executable (or not).
If you decide you want to try NM but do not want to remove WICD just yet,
you will notice that the WICD client keeps starting nevertheless.  You can
prevent this from happening if you add a line containing "NotShowIn=KDE" (do
not include the "") to the following two files:
  * /etc/xdg/autostart/wicd-tray.desktop
  * /usr/share/autostart/wicd-tray.desktop
I was using NetworkManager 0.8 in the KDE 4.7.x series, but I switched to
NM 0.9 for KDE 4.8.0.  The reason for this is, that ongoing development in
KDE's networkmanagement module is focusing on compatibility with NM 0.9.

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Below are the steps you need to take to install or upgrade to KDE 4.8.0.

Make sure you are not running KDE or even X !  If you are running an X session,
log out first, and if you are in runlevel 4 (graphical login) you first have to
go back to runlevel 3 (console) by typing "init 3".

To make it easy for you, here is a one-line command that downloads the whole
4.8.0 directory together with all the sources, and 32-bit and 64-bit packages
(and be careful of the 'dot' at the end of that command, it is part of the
commandline !!):

  # rsync -av rsync://alien.slackbook.org/alien/ktown/4.8.0 .

OK.  Assuming you just downloaded the complete directory tree "4.8.0" and
everything below, you now change your current directory to where you found
this README (which is the directory called '4.8.0').  If you used the
above "rsync" command then that would mean a simple:

  # cd 4.8.0

From within this directory, you run the following commands as root.  Note that
some of the old KDE package names are obsoleted too, they have been split up,
renamed or integrated:

  On Slackware 32-bit:
  # upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new x86/deps/*.t?z
  # upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new x86/kde/*.t?z
  # removepkg polkit-kde-1
  # removepkg kdeaccessibility
  # removepkg kdebase
  # removepkg kdebase-runtime
  # removepkg kdebase-workspace
  # removepkg kdebindings
  # removepkg kdeedu
  # removepkg kdegraphics
  # removepkg kdeutils
  # removepkg konq-plugins

  On Slackware 64-bit:
  # upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new x86_64/deps/*.t?z
  # upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new x86_64/kde/*.t?z
  # removepkg polkit-kde-1
  # removepkg kdeaccessibility
  # removepkg kdebase
  # removepkg kdebase-runtime
  # removepkg kdebase-workspace
  # removepkg kdebindings
  # removepkg kdeedu
  # removepkg kdegraphics
  # removepkg kdeutils
  # removepkg konq-plugins

  If you already have one of my KDE 4.6 or 4.7 compilations installed, there
  has been some package renaming by the developers:
  * oxygen-gtk was renamed to oxygen-gtk2
  * mobipocket was renamed to kdegraphics-mobipocket
  which means you have to run the following two commands as well (assuming
  you ran the 'upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new' commands shown above):
  # removepkg oxygen-gtk
  # removepkg mobipocket

  If you already have one or more non-english language packs installed:
  # upgradepkg x86_64/kdei/*.t?z
  
  If you want to have a non-english language pack installed but none is
  currently installed, substitute your country code instead of the 'XX'
  in the next command:
  # upgradepkg --install-new x86_64/kdei/kde-l10n-XX-*.t?z

  Check if any ".new" configuration files have been left behind by
  the upgradepkg commands.  Compare them to their originals and decide
  if you need to use them.
  # find /etc/ -name "*.new"
  A graphical tool for processing these "*.new" files is slackpkg:
  # slackpkg new-config

Then reboot your system.

===============================================================================
Eric Hameleers - alien at slackware dot com - 23jan2012