How can i install a Kde 4.2 beta System

Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:51 pm

RE: How can i install a Kde 4.2 beta System

Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:51 pm

neverendingo wrote:You get the svn version, but that depends on how often these packages get an update. Uninstalling works the same way like with other software, e.g.
sudo apt-get remove kde-nightly.

ok..installed...

Now I can see that: KDE4 ROCKS...:shade:

but I see that in kickoff I don't have applications, and from krunner I can run for e.g. firefox or konsole, but it isn't an application of nightly because I must write all the word and not for e.g. "fir" or "kons"...

how can I install the applications?

sorry for my english..:-$

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Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:03 pm

RE: How can i install a Kde 4.2 beta System

Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:03 pm

Search in adept for nightly packages, there is for nearly every kde module a package, for example kde-nightly-kdebase, kde-nightly-kdepim etc.

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Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:10 pm

RE: How can i install a Kde 4.2 beta System

Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:10 pm

hi.
I'm sorry .my english is not so good ;-)

i already compiled kde 4.2 (4.1.72) for my debian (just for test),and it take me two days to do it.
and now kde 4.2 beta1 (4.1.80)(19-25/11/2008) is out.but i noticed that the svn snapshot is more recent (26/11/2008).then i want to ask you which version is the best to download and compile. and please what is the difference .is there any missing functionality on beta compared to the svn snapshot.

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Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:01 pm

RE: How can i install a Kde 4.2 beta System

Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:01 pm

If you want to try out KDE 4.2 you can use the beta version. There are no more features in the current svn, because it is feature freeze. This means, that no more features are added for KDE 4.2, but the devs are concentrating on bug fixing.

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Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:35 pm

RE: How can i install a Kde 4.2 beta System

Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:35 pm

thank you for, msoeken
I start compiling beta version .
i mean that you can see that the last fix on (link) for beta is 7days old (only 4fix for 30hours) .however the svn is updated continuously.I have the idea that I can have more functionality with svn snapshot even if it is not very stable.[hr]
please.
do you have any ideas to make compilation fastest.
it make me 2days to compile all packages 5hours only for kdelib and 3 hours for kdebase
my cpu : intel centrino 1.7GHZ
RAM :512mo

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Fri Nov 28, 2008 4:19 pm

RE: How can i install a Kde 4.2 beta System

Fri Nov 28, 2008 4:19 pm

I installed kde 4.2 beta in kubuntu from kde-neon. I have an issue with dolphin. In file menu and all it says NoText
Is there any way to fix this. other wise its a great release.

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Fri Nov 28, 2008 5:20 pm

RE: How can i install a Kde 4.2 beta System

Fri Nov 28, 2008 5:20 pm

This the screen shot of my menu.

Another issue I have is that kopete is complaining that it cannot find qca ossl plugin.
My kopete in kde 4.1.3 is working fine. How do I point kopete to the qca ossl plugin which is present in /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/crypto/libqca-ossl.so[hr]
I just found out one more issue after locking screen I cannot unlock it as its not accepting any passwords[hr]

I solved kopete problem by doing sudo cp -r /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/crypto/ /opt/kde-nightly/lib/kde4/plugins/

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Sat Nov 29, 2008 9:45 am

RE: How can i install a Kde 4.2 beta System

Sat Nov 29, 2008 9:45 am

I installed kde 4.2 on kubuntu 8.10, from the nightly repository mentioned above.

I also had the problem with locking the screen and then being unable to unlock it. Luckily I was able to switch to desktop 1 (cntrl+alt+f1) and then killed the "krunner_lock" process.
This version of KDE4 seems MUCH more stable with composite and switching desktops than the old version that came with kubuntu 8.10 was. It also feels a bit faster, although there are still some BIG slowdowns with scrolling the Desktop Folder and putting many widgets on the desktop.

Other Bugs so far:
-Panel: hiding works, sometimes, but sometimes you have to hover over it with the mouse to remind it to hide.
-Panel: if you have hiding turned on, and you turn off composite, it will break the panel (only an outline is left, and when composite is turned back on it fails to un-hide properly). If you turn off hiding, then turn off composite, the panel/hiding will work great.
-No printing config in System Settings, you have to run system-config-printer from the command line.
-If you click on Multimedia in System Settings, it crashes System Settings.
-Cube and a few other cool desktop switchers are available. All are fairly good looking, but tend to run in a very choppy way (on a laptop with the nvidia 8400 which has ALWAYS had problems with KDE4 compositing).
-Panel: adding a panel on top seems to be possible, but adding Widgets to it resulted in widgets which were very small or distorted.
-Panel: the system tray and the panel hiding are not quite synced.. Sometimes the panel hides when it shouldn't.
-Amarok: I'm not using 2.0 because I can't figure out how to make it work with pulseaudio, and only a few media keys on my laptop work despite setting and re-setting them in Amarok as well as System Settings.
-Krunner claims to support Kate sessions, Konsole sessions, recent documents, etc. Besides putting a check in the plugins checkbox, I can't figure out how to access any of these features.
-Kate Sessions is missing from the Widgets menus

Overall though, I am impressed, and HAPPY to have my whole small screen back now that panel hiding is sort of working. If this beta is any indication, KDE 4.2 final is going to be sweet!

Sam

I installed kde 4.2 on kubuntu 8.10, from the nightly repository mentioned above.

I also had the problem with locking the screen and then being unable to unlock it. Luckily I was able to switch to desktop 1 (cntrl+alt+f1) and then killed the "krunner_lock" process.
This version of KDE4 seems MUCH more stable with composite and switching desktops than the old version that came with kubuntu 8.10 was. It also feels a bit faster, although there are still some BIG slowdowns with scrolling the Desktop Folder and putting many widgets on the desktop.

Other Bugs so far:
-Panel: hiding works, sometimes, but sometimes you have to hover over it with the mouse to remind it to hide.
-Panel: if you have hiding turned on, and you turn off composite, it will break the panel (only an outline is left, and when composite is turned back on it fails to un-hide properly). If you turn off hiding, then turn off composite, the panel/hiding will work great.
-No printing config in System Settings, you have to run system-config-printer from the command line.
-If you click on Multimedia in System Settings, it crashes System Settings.
-Cube and a few other cool desktop switchers are available. All are fairly good looking, but tend to run in a very choppy way (on a laptop with the nvidia 8400 which has ALWAYS had problems with KDE4 compositing).
-Panel: adding a panel on top seems to be possible, but adding Widgets to it resulted in widgets which were very small or distorted.
-Panel: the system tray and the panel hiding are not quite synced.. Sometimes the panel hides when it shouldn't.
-Amarok: I'm not using 2.0 because I can't figure out how to make it work with pulseaudio, and only a few media keys on my laptop work despite setting and re-setting them in Amarok as well as System Settings.
-Krunner claims to support Kate sessions, Konsole sessions, recent documents, etc. Besides putting a check in the plugins checkbox, I can't figure out how to access any of these features.
-Kate Sessions is missing from the Widgets menus :(

Overall though, I am impressed, and HAPPY to have my whole small screen back now that panel hiding is sort of working. If this beta is any indication, KDE 4.2 final is going to be sweet!

Sam

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Sat Nov 29, 2008 9:59 am

RE: How can i install a Kde 4.2 beta System

Sat Nov 29, 2008 9:59 am

The reason why unlocking does not work is probably because the appropriate PAM configuration has not been carried out, which would probably mess up the existing system one. I think it has something to do with setsuid and /etc/pam.d/ from my memories of a kdebase install log ( I compile + install KDE svn directly from source )

Regarding the Multimedia module crashing system settings, make sure you have a Phonon backend for 4.2 installed like Xine, GStreamer. Amarok 2 should automatically work with Pulseaudio assuming it was running when you logged into KDE 4, and the Phonon kded module was compiled with support for it.

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Sat Nov 29, 2008 12:51 pm

RE: How can i install a Kde 4.2 beta System

Sat Nov 29, 2008 12:51 pm

Hello, I just installed KDE4 Beta1 Code:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/project-neon/ubuntu intrepid main
When i go to kickoff application launcher and applications there are no programs there, is there a way to make menu or what is wrong with this? i've tried with new user too but no luck.[hr]

marse wrote:I'm looking for a easy way to install a Kde 4.2 beta System.

It would be great if i can see the hole way from Kde 4.2 beta to the 4.2 final.

Is it possible ?

Hello, I just installed KDE4 Beta1 Code:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/project-neon/ubuntu intrepid main
When i go to kickoff application launcher and applications there are no programs there, is there a way to make menu or what is wrong with this? i've tried with new user too but no luck.

Last edited by wilhart on Sat Nov 29, 2008 1:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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