kaos_user No need to follow that post, just install from the Plasma 6 ISO, and edit /etc/pacman.conf with the instructions in the first post (you will see the [core] repo available in that file.
But make sure to understand how to use a rolling distro/pacman:
https://kaosx.us/docs/pacman/

      demm I've read the basic guide, thanks. I've also opened the pacman.conf file and the instructions became immediately clear :-) I set up the system as described above, thanks.

        a month later

        With a two week delay, finally a Plasma 6 ISO is up with the KDE Megarelease Beta1:
        https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/beta1/
        Delay was because of Calamares failing to build on Qt 6.6.1, but in the end it was not a change in 6.6.1, but rather a CMake setting change that doesn't work (yet) with Calamares in qt6-base build.
        kf5 & kf6 are now fully co-installable, ISO includes a couple more ported applications (like Okular, kf6 based).
        Hopefully many will keep testing, since this ISO is getting close what could/should be released as next stable early 2024.
        Autolgin now actually works again too.

        Beta1 Test ISO did not go well. It fails to install. The FAT 32 partition does not get created properly. Only 300MiB is needed to boot a UEFI system and it looks like the installer tried to create a 512MiB partition and allocated 300MiB of it leaving the 212MiB unallocated

          Regarding size, that is an endless debate, 512 has been recommended in many places and with so many dual-booting, 300 is often too low, but that is not the issue, seems the mkfs-fat command fails on the EFI partition, no answers yet, once issue is found & fixed, a new ISO will be uploaded.

            chief Got it installed by replacing the root partition.

              demm I agree. Used replace a partition instead of erase and install to work around it.

                Issue is in kpmcore, I can get the exact same error if I use partitionmanager in Live mode > delete all partitions > create 512 Mb EFI, XFS for root & swap, erroors out on fat32 creation too, so not a Calamares issue.

                  demm I figured as much when I was able to do an install by replacing the root partition instead of erasing. Thanks for reproducing the failure. You are my hero 🙂))))

                    Found the issue, kpmcore is 24.01.80 is broken, upstream added a few commits to fix the changes, but I decided to just revert the breaking commit:
                    https://invent.kde.org/system/kpmcore/-/commit/6e7efe97c29c4bdab38388a6931df379dd2a8d3b
                    You can test in live mode:

                    sudo pacman -U http://kaosx.tk/repo/kde-next/kpmcore-24.01.80-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst http://kaosx.tk/repo/kde-next/kpmcore-debug-24.01.80-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

                    and run the installer (or open the partitionmanager and create a fat32 512Mb EFI partition).

                      demm Excelent. Smooth install. Now I just have to live with kmymoney not kf/qt 6 yet, and epsonscan2 not in the repos.

                          chief Well I got epsonscan2 to work by editing the pkgbuild. I changed qt5 - qt6 and removed any depend that was not in the repos. I'm surprised it worked. 🙂))))

                            A new ISO is up again, only change from the ISO from the 15th is a fix in kpmcore.

                            5 days later

                            Hello,
                            if I install this ISO enabling the "next" repo I can go back to the "stable" branch when the Plasma 6 version will be released?

                            I really want to upgrade to Plasma 6, but I'm wondering if I can install this ISO and keep it "forever" working on the repositories. I prefer not to install it now if I'll have to reinstall the stable version from scratch after the official release.

                            • demm replied to this.

                              kaos_user if I install this ISO enabling the "next" repo I can go back to the "stable" branch when the Plasma 6 version will be released?

                              Yes, once plasma 6 is released, remove the build & kde-next repo, after a few days, maybe one week of updating, you are fully on stable (in the beginning of removing those repo's, you will get a warning that a local package is newer, that disappears once all packaged have moved out of kde-next/build from that time).

                                  demm

                                  Thank you very much. I'm now on KaOS 6 as my main system. I noticed few installation bugs, should I report them somewhere?

                                  Bugs I found, briefly explained:
                                  1) On the login screen the language is always set to USA. It changes to the configured language (IT in my case) when typing the first character of the password
                                  2) The toggles in the "packages" tab of Calamares can be overlaid by the text
                                  3) Installing kdenlive from the welcome screen returns an error (kdenlive6 not found)
                                  4) The "about us" tab of the welcome screen doesn't scroll until the end. It's automatically pull back to half of the text. Maybe this is due to the translation which is longer than the original text.
                                  5) The italian translation of the "about us" tab of the welcome screen contains a lot of typos.

                                  Let me know how to proceed (open a new thread, explain in this thread, don't report until some kind of Beta you'll release or if you don't care at the moment) 🙂

                                    For point 3, that is to be expected, you can't install any package from the kde-next repo, until you enable that.
                                    Translations issue, please help on the KaOS Transifex pages.

                                      demm I've corrected the typos and completed the italian translation in transifex. Just a last question: will I found the updated translation in the next ISO? Just for checking the "real on-screen output" and check the overall translation consistency

                                        It will be on the next stable ISO for sure, probably not on the next test ISO linked here, Calamares Qt6 needs a lot of changes in translations.

                                        7 days later