getting started with KF5

[Graham Menhennitt]

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

Thanks,

    Graham

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