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KDE 4.11 – first release candidate available for Slackware-current

July 20, 2013 / / 56 Comments

A few days ago, the first release candidate of KDE 4.11 was made public – in source format of course. The source version is “4.10.95”. I had an updated KDE.SlackBuild framework ready since the first beta. A re-work was needed because KDE 4.11 splits another four of the big packages in a lot of smaller individual program packags: kdeadmin, kdetoys, kdesdk and kdenetwork.

I took the bait and built KDE 4.11 RC1 on Slackware-current. Uneventful as always if you have the proper KDE.SlackBuild ; I added the new Calligra 2.7.0 (still waiting for the official release announcement but I decided that I have waited long enough) and proposed the new build to Pat. I needed to know if he had plans for Slackware-current. We agreed on Slackware-current sticking with KDE 4.10 for now, and I would upload the package set to my ‘ktown‘ repository.

So here we are, and I can offer you KDE 4.11 RC1 for Slackware-current. Note that this is not going to work on Slackware 14.0 ! If you are eager to try out what’s going to become KDE 4.11 I encourage you to upgrade your Slackware to what will become 14.1 🙂

announce-4.11-beta1

New KWalletManager user interface; changes to Okular

What’s new in KDE 4.11 RC1 ?

It is recommended to read the feature plan for the new 4.11 series. Most notable changes are the expansion of the use of Qt Quick (the application framework which includes the interpreter language QML), faster Nepomuk indexing (many people keep complaining about Nepomuk), many Kontact improvements, and the start of support for the Wayland compositor in KWin (the window manager of KDE) as well as OpenGL improvements. Overheard during Akademy 2013 (held in Bilbao, ended yesterday) was the fact that KWin may depend on SystemD in future. Bad move, kDE!

How to upgrade to KDE 4.11 RC1 ?

You will find all the installation/upgrade instructions that you need in the accompanying README file. That README also contains basic information for KDE recompilation using the provided SlackBuild script. Earlier blog posts have more information on rebuilding from source and upgrading from Slackware’s own KDE.

You are strongly advised to read and follow these installation/upgrade instructions!

Where to find packages?

Download locations are listed below (you will find the sources in ./source/4.10.95/ and packages in /current/4.10.95/ subdirectories). Using a mirror is preferred because you get more bandwidth from a mirror and it’s friendlier to the owners of the master server!

Have fun! Eric

Testing LibreOffice 4.0.0_rc3

February 2, 2013 / / 12 Comments

Yesterday when I announced my packages for LibreOffice 3.6.5, I told you that I had a Release Candidate for 4.0.0 already running on my Slackware desktop.

I decided to upload some packages for the new “Release Candidate 3” which was tagged and published earlier this week. I built those packages on Slackware64-current (should work on 14.0 too) and just the 64-bit versions. If you run 32-bit Slackware you’re out of luck this time.

What I would like you all to do (if you run the proper Slackware) is to give this one a test run. So far, nothing has popped up that made me unhappy.

What I still need to do in my SlackBuild (but I will get to that when I build the packages for the final stable release) is to incorporate the all-new “dictionaries” tarball into the packages. That tarball contains sources for dictionaries for all supported languages, and compiling those does not take a very long time. I guess it’s just a matter of adding the generated dictionaries to all the language packs I build for LibreOffice instead of having dictionaries for just a few of the languages like I have been doing so far.

Please note that LibreOffice 4 stores its configuration in a new numbered directory, “~/.config/libreoffice/4/” and I have not found a way to automatically migrate the settings from the old “3” directory. If you find a way, let me know in a reply to this blog.

Give it a twist and report what you find: http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/test/libreoffice-4.0.0_rc3/

Eric

Release Candidate Four of LibreOffice 3.3.0

January 22, 2011 / / 19 Comments

It looks like Oracle is trying to rush their OpenOffice 3.3.0 ahead of the LibreOffice fork. Yesterday I thought there was actually going to be a stable release but no, it was only their tenth release candidate. Do we really care?

Anyway, there is a fourth release candidate available now of LibreOffice. Obviously I built some cool packages for Slackware. An official  LibreOffice 3.3.0 is not far off, and what we already have in this Release Candidate looks really good.

I want to stress again: my packages have been compiled from source, as opposed to repackaging the official RPM files. My packages are native Slackware stuff. Language packs for a lot of non-english locales are available – anyone miss their own language here?

Get a dictionary for your language at http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/dictionaries . I would like to have feedback about including dictionaries for some of the major languages in the build.

My Slackware LibreOffice package and language packs – and associated build scripts – can be downloaded from the usual locations (it may take a little while for the UK mirror to be updated):

There is an rsync access as well:

  • rsync://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/slackbuilds/libreoffice/

I am running LibreOffice on Slackware 13.1 as well as -current without issues. Read my older blog posts for my experiences with LibreOffice, and tips on compiling it from source.

Have fun, Eric

First release candidate for LibreOffice

December 8, 2010 / / 10 Comments

Those developers at the Document Foundation are coding like madmen!

The first release candidate of the Libre Office suite of programs has seen the light of day. And of course I put my computer to work, and the result is a series of Slackware 13.1 packages for 32-bit and 64-bit LibreOffice, including a bunch of language packs. Please tell me if your language is missing.

Get the packages here: http://slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/libreoffice/ or from one of my mirrors: http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/slackbuilds/libreoffice/ and http://slackware.org.uk/people/alien/slackbuilds/libreoffice/ . Both mirrors have rsync access.

Please note:

If you want to use my libreoffice.SlackBuild to compile these packages yourself, the script will first download an additional 200 MB of external source tarballs before commencing with the compilation. I decided not to store all these sources in my own build directory, in order to minimize the load on the server.

Enjoy, Eric

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