KDE 4.4 beta1 in KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop

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Hi,

yesterday I tried KDE 4.4 from the KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop-repository. The new KDESC is really impressive. But I have a few little issues:

  1. kdepim-runtime was not installed by zypper dup. Without this package, Kontact ans Akonadi weren’t able to start. I think this is a dependency-problem.

  2. Nepomuk could not start because of missing virtuoso-package. This should be reflected in the dependencies from nepomuk, so zypper will install this automatically. BTW: virtuoso from the very same repository is too old, nepomuk needs >= 5.0.12. It sould be updated in this repo, after installing just virtuoso(-drivers/-server) from KDE:KDE4:Unstable:Desktop nepomuk was working.

  3. kdeutils is missing in this repository because of the compilation-failure of python-kde4. So I’m missing applications like kgpg and kwalletmanager. I hope this will be fixed soon. It seems that kdeutils in Unstable does not depend on python-kde4, but I don’t know why.

  4. mozilla-xulrunner-191-kde4 needs kde < 4.3.60. This dependency can simply be ignored. Does anybody know if there will be a new version of this? Perhaps with Firefox 3.6?

I hope this will help somebody while trying this repository.

Greets

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Hey, for some reason i can’t get akonadi to work…

This is the error i get:

Unable to connect to dbus service:  "" 
"
0: akonadiserver(_Z11akBacktracev+0x39) [0x40b869]
1: akonadiserver [0x40bdb2]
2: /lib64/libc.so.6 [0x7fdbeaa08560]
3: /lib64/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x35) [0x7fdbeaa084e5]
4: /lib64/libc.so.6(abort+0x180) [0x7fdbeaa099b0]
5: /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4(_Z17qt_message_output9QtMsgTypePKc+0x74) [0x7fdbebbb9414]
6: akonadiserver(_ZN15FileDebugStream9writeDataEPKcx+0xa8) [0x40cda8]
7: /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN9QIODevice5writeEPKcx+0x78) [0x7fdbebc47dc8]
8: /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4 [0x7fdbebc590b9]
9: /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN11QTextStreamD1Ev+0x3b) [0x7fdbebc5a20b]
10: akonadiserver(main+0x52d) [0x4065ad]
11: /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7fdbea9f4a7d]
12: akonadiserver [0x405f89]
]
" 
D-Bus session bus went down - quitting

If needed i can post a full selftest report…

Everything else works fine, I really like some new features in KDE SC 4.4!

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  1. We’re working out the best way to provide this dependency.
  2. Fixed in KKFD, now rebuilding - thanks for letting us know!
    3 & 4. Known issues, work in progress.
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Thanks for the answer. :slight_smile: This are great news… I was thinking about switching to the UNSTABLE-Repo but so I will stay in Factory.

Or are the unstable-packages more stable than Factory?

Especially kontact seems to be very unstable in Factory.

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The UNSTABLE packages will be updated every week whereas the Factory:Desktop packages are generally updated when there is a new beta. So UNSTABLE will stabilise faster than Factory as bugs are fixed, but both will end up in the same place when KDE 4.4 is released.

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Hello, I’m using
Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_Factory
Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_Factory
Im Updating KDE regularly but last week I found a problem with the ** shared-mime-info> = 0.70** dependency.

To fix it I had to add the repository
Index of /repositories/home:/perosb/openSUSE_Factory

I know that the library is in the repo/oss factory of openSUSE 11.3 but I want to keep original repo/oss/ of the distribution 11.2 and testing only KDE factory.

Maybe someone can add shared-mime-info> = 0.70 to KDE Factory repositories to avoid adding additional repositories.

thaks !!

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In that case you are using wrong kde repos. You should use these:
Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.2
Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.2_KDE4_Factory_Desktop

cheers,
Bart :wink: