KDE/Plasma and Cinnamon updates in Debian
It is the time of the year when we all are searching for some peaceful time, but the pre-release freeze of Bullseye is putting a higher burden than usual on us 😉 So here we go, two desktop environments got updates in Debian/experimental. A few days ago I have updated all the Cinnamon related packages to the latest release 4.8, and yesterday I have uploaded KDE/Plasma packages of 5.20.4. This brings my two favorite desktop environments up to upstream release in Debian.
My plans for both are uploads as soon as possible to unstable, so that they can transition to Debian/testing and will be included in the next release of Bullseye.
You can help now by installing your preferred desktop environment (Cinnamon or KDE/Plasma) from experimental and report bugs to the BTS, so that we can iron out some more bugs before pushing it out. If you are not sure, feel free to contact the respective maintainer email lists (debian-cinnamon and debian-kde) with questions/reports/suggestions.
Thanks everyone, and let us hope for a great Bullseye release!
I have a virtual mashine with Debian Sid with Experimental enabled. So I just tried to upgrade Plasma . Everything seem to work at first glance.
Thanks, good to hear.
Thanks a lot!
I am now receiving the following when trying to `apt update`:
W: No Hash entry in Release file /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/download.opensuse.org_repositories_home:_npreining:_debian-kde:_other-deps_Debian%5fTesting_._InRelease
E: The repository ‘https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-kde:/other-deps/Debian_Testing ./ InRelease’ provides only weak security information.
N: Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
Is there some misconfiguration on my side or the error is in the repositories?
As written in other blogs, the
other-depsrepository is not needed (and not existing) anymore, please remove it.Thanks!
Congratulations on your work, suggestion plasma-disks could depend on the partitionmanager and kup-backup packages as they are his tools
Hi Ricardo,
thanks for the suggestion, but what do you mean with “his tools”? I would add partitionmanager to the recommends, I guess, but kup-backup is not really necessary, right?
Hello Norbert
In “/usr/share/kpackage/kcms/plasma_disks/contents/main.qlm” from line 54 to 65, 2 buttons are defined, “Partition Manager” that runs partitionmanager and “Backup” that runs kup-backup. Without the two dependencies, only the “Ignore” button is displayed
OK, I added partionmanager and kup-backup to the recommends of plasma-disks. They are not strictly necessary, but useful.
Thank you, as recommended is perfect.
Hello, Plasma-discover 5.20.4 is still presenting this bug (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427901). To resolve this I installed the package “qml-module-org-kde-kirigami2” from the repository (deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-kde:/frameworks/Debian_Testing/ /)
Seems that on debian sid there is a graphical glitch: https://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=8164.msg65978#msg65978
I don’t see that, and don’t know how to reproduce it, can you be more specific?
Well I have on Debian sid, 2 users with siduction (including me) have this issue.
It is like the bar is not the right high internally so a part of that is black. Maybe it’s a bug of KDE itself?
Will be fixed in KDE Frameworks Version: 5.78.0
Please look at
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430390
Thanks, good find! I have included the fix in the packages for 5.77 I am planning to upload to experimental rather soon. I will also update the OBS build.
I included the fix from 5.78 in plasma-framework 5.77.0-1~np2 which should be available by now. Could you please test and see whether this does it fix for you?
Unfortunately not, it is probably a upstream bug, still unresolved in Frameworks Version: 5.78.0!
By the way:
Thanks for taking into account the package qml-module-org-kde-prison.
I noticed, that Its absence had broken the Plasma clipboard
Strange, so we are discussing two different bugs here? The one that is fixed in 5.78 and cherry-picked, and another one? Is the a bug report for the other one?
Sorry for this comment; if I could I would delete it!
After rebooting my rig, this bug has disappeared!
Toggling between multi-user.target and graphical.target has not been sufficient.
# LANG=C apt policy plasma-framework
plasma-framework:
Installed: 5.77.0-1
…
No worry, thanks for testing and confirmation, much appreciated.
The notification area settings on the elements tab was also affected by the bug (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427901) was also resolved when installing the package “qml-module-org-kde-kirigami2 ”From the repository (deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-kde:/frameworks/Debian_Testing/ /). I believe that you will have to update the frameworks.
I have that package already installed
Recent update to Qt in testing (to 5.15.2+dfsg-2) causes some problem for packages in your repo (apt tries to remove a whole bunch). So I’m pausing updates for now.
I am rebuilding the frameworks for the new qt now. If there is anything still problematic, please let me know. But rebuilding takes a bit, check on https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:npreining:debian-kde:frameworks whether your arch is ready.
Most packages are OK now (x86_64), but these are still not co-installable:
kde-plasma-desktop kde-standard kinfocenter kwin-common kwin-wayland kwin-wayland-backend-drm kwin-x11 plasma-desktop plasma-integration plasma-widgets-addons plasma-workspace plasma-workspace-wayland sddm-theme-breeze task-kde-desktop
Ok, pushing out a version bump so that all packages are rebuilt. No bin-nmu on OSC 😉
The bug (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427901) was resolved by updating frameworks 5.74 to 5.77 in experimental Debian, thanks for the correction.
Thanks for checking and reporting. Yes, the package in Debian has the fix from 5.78 backported.
Should be fixed now!
Thanks, all good now!
By the way, is there some way to make a repo that points to latest apps / plasma, so there won’t be need to update the name each time there is a version bump?
I.e. something like
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-kde:/apps-latest/Debian_Testing/
Instead of
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-kde:/apps2012/Debian_Testing/
?
Good idea, will look into it whether this is easily possible without too much pain.
I am a new comer to Linux and am attempting to install Debian and KDE Plasma on my Dell laptop running Windows 10 with WSL installed. I have downloaded and installed Debian from the Microsoft Store and am now trying to install KDE Plasma. Doing some research on line I saw that I use “sudo apt -y task-kde-desktop”. I tried this and also tried “sudo apt-get task-kde-desktop”. Both produced “E: Invalid operation task-kde-desktop”. My suspicion is that I need to add a repository to my sources.list file but have been unable to find what line I should add to the file. Is it possible that you could shed some light on my problem?
Thanks and Happy Holidays and stay healthy,
Abe
That does not work. You cannot have Plasma on Windows, not even with WSL. You need to run proper Linux.
Thanks for your quick response.
By proper Linux, I am guessing you mean a dual boot system. Is there any GUI that I can add to the WSL version? I don’t know enough of Linux to run apps from a command line.
By the way, you are the first person who has given me any sort of reasonable answer on this situation.
Thanks again,
Abe