Some package updates for KDE 4.6.5

July 26, 2011 / alienbob / 13 Comments

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

Software

kde46 Slackware

13 Comments

gbschenkel
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 !

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Hans
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?

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firekage
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?

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dolphin77
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/

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alienbob (Post author)
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

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firekage
July 27, 2011 at 12:58

Thanks, now it works.

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witchlord
July 27, 2011 at 16:56

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witchlord
July 27, 2011 at 16:57

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pralat
July 27, 2011 at 20:52

Thanks, man!
And now, i’m waiting for kde 4.7 packages ;]
Greets.

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Hans
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.

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escaflown
July 29, 2011 at 17:44

Hi Eric. Are you going to bless us with KDE SC 4.7 ? 🙂

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fogie
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.

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alienbob (Post author)
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

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