KDE Plasma 6 is out

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Good news Plasma 6 is to be Snapshot 11032024

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Are you sure? I looked at the diff earlier today and it seems only Applications 24.02 is going to be available:

https://openqa.opensuse.org/snapshot-changes/opensuse/Tumbleweed/diff/20240311

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in the packages changed, it lists: patterns-kde and in the notes for that change it lists:

  • Replace the plasma5 pattern with the plasma6 one

This means we could install the plasma 6 pattern in Yast, I think? Fingers crossed, very much looking forward to trying it out

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Are we there yet?

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Openqa just finished running for Tumbleweed, so maybe weā€™re close.

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FYI ā€œKDE Megarelease 6 in TW snapshot 20240311ā€ from the Factory ML: KDE Megarelease 6 in TW snapshot 20240311 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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Oh good ā€¦ and all the eager beavers will be back here after the update, with complaints and
how do i fix xxxx :slight_smile:

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@aggie, if youā€™re displeased by bug reports, alternatively, weā€™d need to hire 2 x the amount of testing staff. If youā€™re displeased by people not reading the mailing list, the solution is to provide patch notes to users after an upgrade.

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Understood:
"There are a few minor issues in this snapshot found by openQA ā€¦
ā€¦
Theyā€™ll all be fixed with Plasma 6.0.2 in one of the next snapshots ".

ā€œnext snapshotsā€ could be 1, or could 8 or more - in the meantime, one is running crippled ā€¦ Iā€™ll stay un-crippled until 6.0.2 :+1:

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From sudo zypper dup, Iā€™m getting

Problem: the to be installed plasma6-workspace-devel-6.0.1-1.1.x86_64 requires 'cmake(Plasma) >= 6.0.1', but this requirement cannot be provided
  not installable providers: libplasma6-devel-6.0.1-1.1.x86_64[download.opensuse.org-oss]
                   libplasma6-devel-6.0.1-1.1.x86_64[https-download.opensuse.org-1ff5d8a2]
                   libplasma6-devel-6.0.1-1.1.x86_64[https-download.opensuse.org-5dda65be]
                   libplasma6-devel-6.0.1-1.1.x86_64[openSUSE-20230920-0]
 Solution 1: Following actions will be done:
  keep obsolete plasma5-workspace-devel-5.27.10-3.2.x86_64
  keep obsolete plasma5-workspace-libs-5.27.10-3.2.x86_64
 Solution 2: Following actions will be done:
  deinstallation of plasma-framework-devel-5.115.0-1.1.x86_64
  deinstallation of krunner-devel-5.115.0-1.1.x86_64
 Solution 3: deinstallation of plasma5-workspace-devel-5.27.10-3.2.x86_64
 Solution 4: break plasma6-workspace-devel-6.0.1-1.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies

Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/3/4/c/d/?] (c): 3

Deinstallation merely means installation of the replacement, right? So 3 is safe? I donā€™t want to stupidly remove my DEā€¦ XD

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Yes, solution 3 should be right.
But as can be easily seen at your output, you have a messed up repo list. You used 1-click reposā€¦

https-download.opensuse.org-1ff5d8a2
https-download.opensuse.org-5dda65be
openSUSE-20230920-0

You should have checked your repo list prior upgradingā€¦

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No problems at all to upgrade to Plasma 6:

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240311
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0
Qt Version: 6.6.2
Kernel Version: 6.7.7-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
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Yep. It has been duly regretted. Happened earlier in my Linux journey. Probably due for an OS reinstall soon.

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Well, Iā€™m jumping in. Somebody has to complain and report bugs. :wink:
Seriously. With the speed of TW updates I think most things will be smoothed out pretty quickly. I know, KDE might take a while but the big bugs shouldnā€™t live long.

Iā€™ve been around since the KDE 2>3 upgrade. I downloaded all of the packages from KDE, uninstalled all of KDE from Mandrake and did the update in console. It went really well. Itā€™ll be done shortly. Hereā€™s to hope!

Oh, if you donā€™t have Bluetooth disable KDE Connect in the tray. They say that causes a 25 second pause when booting and I want to get right in there and have a look.

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I tried to do the upgrade ā€¦ but it did NOT go well for me. Halfway through my zypper dup, it just crashes the entire system to a login screen. So I log back in and try again: same thing. Reboot: same thing. I canā€™t seem to get past whatever is causing that. And the terminal goes by at a thousand mph so I canā€™t even read what packages / errors / etc is even being listed. Itā€™s like an instant after I press ā€œyā€ itā€™s sitting at the login prompt.

Had to snapper back to an older snapshot since it left me with half installed 5.x and half 6.0.

Any ideas to help perhaps?

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ctrl-alt-f4 or some other f-key until you get to a tty, and run the upgrade there.

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or boot to runlevel 3 to install.

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Finally, got the updateā€¦

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Graphics platform is X11. How do I change it to wayland?

Also, there is no noticeable difference to the previous version of plasma. Looks exactly the same.

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After upgrading, everything went smooth and great, except that SDDM and login configuration couldnā€™t be found in System Settings.:thinking: The current Plasma 6 ā€œDesktop Sessionā€ looks incomplete.

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Because youā€™re probably using your same user account, and itā€™s picking up all your old configs from Plasma 5. Some of which will carry over.

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