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On Thursday 04 August 2016 00:51:42 Rodney Baker wrote:
Hi all. What repositories should I have selected to have a properly working KDE desktop in Leap 42.1? Or do I need to go back to 13.2 and start afresh with a clean install?
[…] KDE-related repositories that I currently have selected:
KDE Framework 5 OpenSuSE-Leap-42.1-Update KDE:Extra KDE Applications KDE Unstable Extra (mainly for kaffeine5, which isn't working properly either) Qt 5.7
When I first upgraded to 42.1, the only DE could get (sort of) working was Gnome. Without the above repositories, I could not even get close to a working KDE desktop after upgrading from 13.2.
Oh - I also lost all of my desktop customisations and many plasma widgets that I had come to rely on that obviously haven't been ported to KF5/Plasma 5. That makes it even more tempting to revert. Nevertheless, it feels like I'm almost there with KF5/Plasma5, as long as I can figure out how to get everything that does work, working properly.
Adding these additional repos will cause a lot of pain if you are not careful and explicitly select which packages you want to install from which additional repo. Leap 42.1 is very much working fine with no additional KDE repo - see for example the openQA system test https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/234878 - and also updating from e.g. openSUSE 13.2 works. All of this is also automatically tested. I suggest the problems come either from a weird repo mix or your configuration files. It might help to remove all additional repos, update to the official state, add back whatever you need. A clean start by deleting your config folder and hand-picking what is desired might also help.
Or do I just blow the whole lot away and go to 42.2 as a fresh install?
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