Plasma 6 test ISO

mparillo

Is print-manager6 working? Do I need to install and enable cups?

demm

mparillo Cups needs to be installed and enabled, though the plasmoid does not work here.

mparillo

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.

demm

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.

kaos_user

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?

demm

kaos_user See the very first post in this thread, it tells you which repos are needed (and will always show the latest avaialble ISO).

kaos_user

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

demm

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.

kaos_user

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

demm

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/

kaos_user

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.

demm

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.

chief

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

chief

chief Got it installed by replacing the root partition.

demm

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

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

demm

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.

chief

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 🙂))))

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