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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 19/09/2016 17:14, Tobias C. Berner
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<div dir="ltr">Hi<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 19 September 2016 at 00:54,
Adriaan de Groot <span dir="ltr"><<a
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Monday 19 September 2016 08:45:39 Graham Menhennitt
wrote:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
><br>
> I'm new to this and would like to test some KF5
stuff. I'm running<br>
> FreeBSD stable-11 on AMD64. Could somebody please
tell me how to get<br>
> started.<br>
><br>
> I know that I have to get the SVN repo from area51.
But what's the next<br>
> step? Do I copy that over the top of a standard
ports repo? Or do I have<br>
> to merge things somehow? And then what - "cd
/usr/ports/x11/kde; make"?<br>
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</span> - Get area51. Get the plasma5/ branch, because
it's where the current state-<br>
of-the-art lives.<br>
- (optional) get a separate ports checkout somewhere<br>
- in the plasma5/ checkout, run<br>
$ sh Tools/scripts/kdemerge -a /path/to/ports<br>
This will merge all the KDE area51 ports into that
ports tree (which is why<br>
you might want to use a separate ports checkout, so it's
easy to undo).<br>
- For the biggest effect, build x11/kde5<br>
- It might be good to switch off your display manager (if
you have one already<br>
on your FreeBSD system) and using startx for a bit. You
probably just need<br>
exec /usr/local/bin/startkde in .xinitrc (note that the
plasma5 branch shuffles<br>
some KDE4 ports around, and what used to be startkde
becomes startkde4).<br>
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<div>There are also packages provided by swills@ which might
be the fastest way to </div>
<div>give it a go:</div>
<div>There is a script to add the repo here [if I picked the
right one]:</div>
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://gist.github.com/swills/8a9a9f8a529256f134830c2a1476db0c">https://gist.github.com/swills/8a9a9f8a529256f134830c2a1476db0c</a> </div>
<div>or you can of course also manually add/modify a
repo.conf.</div>
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> Is there a list of what I can expect to work and
what won't?<br>
<br>
</span>I think tcb uses plasma5 on FreeBSD as his primary
desktop, so "most" things<br>
apparently work. I've got to admit to sticking with KDE4
desktop, mostly out<br>
of inertia.<br>
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<div>Indeed I do :) -- things mostly seem to work.</div>
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<div>mfg Tobias </div>
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<p>Thanks Tobias and Adriaan. I'll give it a try.</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p> Graham<br>
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