Is print-manager6 working? Do I need to install and enable cups?
Plasma 6 test ISO
Thank you very much. I had an HP printer, so for me:
sudo pacman -S hplip
and cups was already a dependency
systemctl enable cups.service
reboot
hp-setup -u
And my printer was already selected and default in System Settings > Printers.
I successfully printed from kate6.
A new Plasma 6 ISO is up which includes the Alpha Megarelease from last week:
https://kde.org/announcements/kdes-6th-megarelease-alpha/
Autologin is enabled, but somehow is not working yet, seems the old used sddm.conf will need further adjusting for Qt6.
Hello,
to get the Plasma 6 updates we should reinstall the system from the new ISO (when you'll publish a new one) or we will get them using the normal updates?
Thanks for the reply. I'm sorry but I can't find the repo in the first post or thread nor in the blog post.
In a following post you write "you will need to edit pacman.conf and add the build repo above core, then add kde-next above build once rebooted into the new system." but I can't understand what it means
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kaos_user That is written that way for a reason, see https://forum.kaosx.us/d/3062-instructions-how-to-convert-a-plasma-5-install-to-plasma-6 for why no further explanation will be given.
If you do not know the basics of how to test/add repo's, etc on KaOS, installing an alpha Plasma is not a good idea, just use the Live session from the ISO's to preview Plasma 6, there is a new ISO about every 2 weeks.
demm Thank you very much. Don't worry, I won't report issues or open new threads if the system will break. As I'm not expert, I've installed it on a spare hard disk.
I just want to have the basic "Kaos 6" system configured. I'll follow the instructions in the link. Thanks again
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.
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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.
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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.
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.