[arch-general] Update on Trinity - 2 versions available R14 and 3.5.13-sru
All, There have been a few noteworthy developments with the Trinity project for Arch. There will be essentially 2 versions available. The primary focus of the project is currently on TDE 14.0.0 (R14) which is TQt3 based and due to executable renaming, it can be installed along side kde4 without conflict. As R14 development went forward, new updates have been continually backported to the stable 3.5.13 branch of the GIT tree. This has resulted in a completely updated branch of TDE 3.5.13 code which is still Qt3 based and retains all backwards compatibility with KDE 3.5.10. This TDE branch is referred to as (3.5.13-sru). The backporting of updates and patches to 3.5.13-sru has created a branch in the GIT tree that can provide a traditional KDE3/Qt3 desktop built on all current Arch Linux libraries. To Arch users, this is essentially kdemod3.next. I have binaries available for both R14 and 3.5.13-sru that I need to find server space to host on. I have had several downloaded from my home server, but that is just not workable. I would like to get all of the binaries available to anyone interested for testing so that anything overlooked can be discovered and found. (Yes - sftp://whereever now work from any file open/save dialog now :) If anybody knows of available server space or can let me use ~1.2G of space, I can upload all 4 sets of packages R14.0.0/{i686,x86_64} and 3.5.13-sru/{i686,x86_64}. Let me know if you or anyone you know have some to spare. My guess there would probably be a dozen downloads from interested Archers. Let me know. Thanks! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On 08/05/2012 11:03 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
All,
There have been a few noteworthy developments with the Trinity project for Arch. There will be essentially 2 versions available. The primary focus of the project is currently on TDE 14.0.0 (R14) which is TQt3 based and due to executable renaming, it can be installed along side kde4 without conflict. As R14 development went forward, new updates have been continually backported to the stable 3.5.13 branch of the GIT tree. This has resulted in a completely updated branch of TDE 3.5.13 code which is still Qt3 based and retains all backwards compatibility with KDE 3.5.10. This TDE branch is referred to as (3.5.13-sru).
TDE has been updated for cups >= 1.6 and ffmpeg 0.11. Server space has been graciously obtained from Axilleas Pi. Final builds of the 3.5.13-sru binaries are underway. R14 builds will start thereafter. I will upload binaries and provide a link to the repo within the next couple of days (once I figure out the upload process - and have time to test a couple of tdm (kdm) changes to kdmrc generation ) I'll provide install notes at that time. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On 14 August 2012 12:52, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com>wrote:
On 08/05/2012 11:03 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
All,
There have been a few noteworthy developments with the Trinity project for Arch. There will be essentially 2 versions available. The primary focus of the project is currently on TDE 14.0.0 (R14) which is TQt3 based and due to executable renaming, it can be installed along side kde4 without conflict. As R14 development went forward, new updates have been continually backported to the stable 3.5.13 branch of the GIT tree. This has resulted in a completely updated branch of TDE 3.5.13 code which is still Qt3 based and retains all backwards compatibility with KDE 3.5.10. This TDE branch is referred to as (3.5.13-sru).
TDE has been updated for cups >= 1.6 and ffmpeg 0.11. Server space has been graciously obtained from Axilleas Pi. Final builds of the 3.5.13-sru binaries are underway. R14 builds will start thereafter. I will upload binaries and provide a link to the repo within the next couple of days (once I figure out the upload process - and have time to test a couple of tdm (kdm) changes to kdmrc generation ) I'll provide install notes at that time.
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Excellent, thank you. -- -msx
On 14 August 2012 15:00, Martin Cigorraga <msx@archlinux.us> wrote:
On 14 August 2012 12:52, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com>wrote:
On 08/05/2012 11:03 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
All,
There have been a few noteworthy developments with the Trinity project for Arch. There will be essentially 2 versions available. The primary focus of the project is currently on TDE 14.0.0 (R14) which is TQt3 based and due to executable renaming, it can be installed along side kde4 without conflict. As R14 development went forward, new updates have been continually backported to the stable 3.5.13 branch of the GIT tree. This has resulted in a completely updated branch of TDE 3.5.13 code which is still Qt3 based and retains all backwards compatibility with KDE 3.5.10. This TDE branch is referred to as (3.5.13-sru).
TDE has been updated for cups >= 1.6 and ffmpeg 0.11. Server space has been graciously obtained from Axilleas Pi. Final builds of the 3.5.13-sru binaries are underway. R14 builds will start thereafter. I will upload binaries and provide a link to the repo within the next couple of days (once I figure out the upload process - and have time to test a couple of tdm (kdm) changes to kdmrc generation ) I'll provide install notes at that time.
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Excellent, thank you.
-- -msx
Will the two versions conflict with eachother? Will there be any KDE4 conflicts? Thanks Calvin
Will the two versions conflict with eachother? Will there be any KDE4 conflicts?
Thanks Calvin
(Install either 14.0.0 or 3.5.13, but not both at the same time. R14 should install with KDE4, but the libart-lgpl conflict needs to be fixed. I don't recommend installing both 3.5.13-sru and KDE4. Details below :) Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) for Archlinux TDE for Archlinux is provided in two versions 3.5.13-sru and 14.0.0. Both are updated to build/run on all current Archlinux packages and libraries (gcc 4.7.1, glibc 2.16, glib2 2.32, libpng 1.5, ffmpeg 0.11, cups 1.6 and more). TDE 3.5.13 Software Release Update (sru) is a traditional Qt3 based continuation of KDE 3.5.10 and is directly backwards compatible with all KDE 3.5 code. TDE 3.5.13-sru contains all major updates present in the latest version of TDE 14.0.0. TDE 14.0.0 is a TQt3 based continuation of the KDE3 desktop with an updated application framework (TQt) to allow migration to Qt4 and other advancements. TDE 14.0.0 should not conflict with KDE4. The version change from 3.5.X to 14.0.X signifies that TDE 14. is no longer directly backwards compatible with KDE3 code. TDE 14 can be built and operate with HAL, but that capability is still experimental. Both 3.5.13 and 14.0.0 are very stable desktops in operation. The primary development on TDE is with 14.0.0. Significant updates are then backported to 3.5.13-sru. You should consider the versions as 'development' (R14) and stable (3.5.13-sru) versions of the TDE desktop. TDE Binaries for Archlinux Server space has been graciously provided by Axilleas Pi. Install repositories are shown below. Meta package installation for tde is provided under the name 'tde-base'. To install TDE on Arch, simply install with: pacman -Sy tde-base Note: On install, you should expect conflicts with tde-sip and tde-sip4-tqt. The TDE packages 'tde-sip' and 'tde-sip4-tqt' are direct replacements for the 'sip' and 'python2-sip' packages. They simply contain additional extensions for TDE. If you encounter these conflicts, the recommended install is: pacman -Rdd sip python2-sip pacman -Sy tde-base Warning: If attempting to install 3.5.13 along side KDE4 you will experience conflict with libart-lgpl and kdebase-workspace. The libart-lgpl packages are equivalent. The kdebase-workspace conflict is with /etc/ksysguarddrc. Both are in the process of being eliminated. Archlinux Repositories: (Note - only 3.5.13-sru i686 uploaded this morning) http://archlinux.us.to/3.5.13/i686/ http://archlinux.us.to/3.5.13/x86_64/ http://archlinux.us.to/14.0.0/i686/ http://archlinux.us.to/14.0.0/x86_64/ Add one of the following to your /etc/pacman.conf and adjust i686/x86_64 as required: [tde3513] Server = http://archlinux.us.to/3.5.13/i686/ [tde1400] http://archlinux.us.to/14.0.0/i686/ Note: Binaries are currently being finished and will be uploaded when complete. Currently TDE 3.5.13-sru i686 is ready for testing. x86_64 will be uploaded later today. R14 should be expected within a week. Archlinux PKGBUILD Sources: TDE is under heavy development causing patch requirements to change daily. Currently TDE is compiled from tarballs created from local copies of the TDE GIT tree. Using tarballs from a local copy of the GIT tree instead of having the PKGBUILD download directly from GIT was done to limit load on the TDE GIT server. The build process is outlined in: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/tde/src/README-building.txt A recent snapshot of all PKGBUILD src directories can be downloaded in a single file: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/tde/src/tde-pkgbuild-src.tar.gz (R14) http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/tde/src13/tde-pkgbuild-src_3513-sru.tar.gz (3.5.13-sru) Individual src files are available in the same directory. The files themselves can be browsed at: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/tde/pbpkg/ http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/tde/pbpkg13/ Bugs/Help Please let me know of any problems experienced with the packages. If you have ideas or improvements, let me know as well. Bugs can be directly reported at: http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net. The archwiki for Trinity will be updated shortly. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On 08/16/2012 09:59 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Note: Binaries are currently being finished and will be uploaded when complete. Currently TDE 3.5.13-sru i686 is ready for testing. x86_64 will be uploaded later today. R14 should be expected within a week.
3.5.13-sru x86_64 packages are available now. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On 08/16/2012 11:19 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 08/16/2012 09:59 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Note: Binaries are currently being finished and will be uploaded when complete. Currently TDE 3.5.13-sru i686 is ready for testing. x86_64 will be uploaded later today. R14 should be expected within a week.
3.5.13-sru x86_64 packages are available now.
For additional information, the wiki has been updated: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Trinity -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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Calvin Morrison
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David C. Rankin
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Martin Cigorraga