Hi folks.
I have a nice set of packages ready for KDE Plasma6 Beta2 which was just announced two days ago.
As you see from below screenshot, it runs nicely as a Wayland session, both logged in via the SDDM login manager and by running “startkwayland” from a console in runlevel 3.
A few issues that I see may be related to running this test in a QEMU virtual machine, connecting to its VNC server interface from inside another remote VNC session… maybe that’s overdoing the complexity, I don’t know. I can not logout from either the X11 or the Wayland session, the virtual display freezes and I have to login via ssh and reboot the VM or do a back-and-forth switch between runlevels 3 and 4.
Another problem I am facing is the fact that I cannot yet test this on real hardware. I intend to generate and release a KTOWN variant of liveslak, i.e. an ISO image containing this Plasma6 Beta2 release. Unfortunately, the ISO I generated refuses to start either X11 or Wayland sessions, complaining about Qt6 interfaces that are missing or corrupt. I compared the Plasma6-specific package list in the ISO to what I have installed in this QEMU VM, and they are identical.
I will continue my troubleshooting and hope to fix this before Christmas. If not, then this will have to be delayed until after the family visits.
Happy Christmas!
Eric
Merry Christmas !
Great job Eric, Slackware community wouldn’t be the same without your job.
Thank you for another year of testing and releasing packages for the best, and least annoying distro. Have a good Christmas with your family.
Happy Xmas Eric!!!. All the best and have a great time with your family.
Thanks for your time and effort maintaining KDE Land…. on Slackware!!
Happy Holidays to all the Slackware Family.
Francisco
Found the cause for the non-functional Live ISO. There was a stale qt6-6.6.0 package in an archive directory which was found by make_slackware_live.sh and subsequently installed. All the rest is compiled against qt6-6.6.1 which resulted in all the ‘missing symbols’ errors.
I have a working live environment now, by manually upgrading the qt6 package inside the Live VM. Now I am re-generating a proper ISO image and hopefully have that online later today for all of you to enjoy.
It sports a wintery scene as its default background image, which I shot during one of my COVID pandemic walks.
Qt6 by Christmas would be awesome.
I was having trouble building, on slack64-current, the Qt6 from the SlackBuild on SlackBuilds.org.
A full ktown repository including the KDE Plasma packages will go online with the formal release but I can already upload the dependencies (qt6 and several Slackware packages that I recompiled to add Qt6 support).
I will look at how that can be done.
Oh I see you’ve built a binary here: http://slackware.uk/people/alien-kde/current/6/x86_64/deps/qt6-6.6.1-x86_64-1alien.txz
Grazie!