Installing 14.10 beta release, and adding Plasma 5 PPA - success update!

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Valorie Zimmerman
<valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 03:01:35AM -0700, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Harald Sitter <apachelogger at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>> > sudo apt install kubuntu-plasma5-desktop
>>> >
>>> > maybe we should put a kubuntu-desktop into the ppa to force migrate to
>>> > kubuntu-plasma5-desktop. alas, that only helps if one had
>>> > kubuntu-desktop installed anyway.
>>>
>>> So you are saying I should have done this rather than adding the
>>> staging PPA? If so, entirely my mistake. If we want people testing
>>> kubuntu-plasma5-desktop rather than installing Plasma5 from the ISO,
>>> we should say so in our messaging, such as
>>> http://www.kubuntu.org/news/1410-beta-2
>>
>> We do say so on the announce page
>>  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UtopicUnicorn/Beta2/Kubuntu
>> but this which isn't too well aligned to the kubuntu.org news item in terms of content,
>> I was hoping the new website would fix that but I've not heard any status on that in a
>> while :(
>>
>> Jonathan
>
> Odd thing - even once I added the ppa, kubuntu-plasma5-desktop was
> reported as non-existant. However, once I did update & dist-upgrade,
> it did sort of install.
>
> But then apt when into a spin, telling me some stuff needed to be
> removed, and more updates needed installing, but it couldn't seem to
> upgrade them or remove the old files; just kept repeating itself.
>
> So I shut down (which didn't work in plasma; did `sudo shutdown now`
> in console and still had to use the power button....) and started up
> again, and was never logged into KDE after I put in my password.
>
>  In the console, when I tried to login, I got:
> [  171.171303] systemd-logind[976]: Failed to start unit
> user at 1000-service: Unknown unit: user at 1000
> [  171.171303] systemd-logind[976]: Failed to start user service:
> Unknown unit: user at 1000.service
>
> Interesting?
>
> The atom netbook is running 14.10 with no problem, but I hesitate to
> try Plasma 5 on it now.
>
> Valorie

Final update on this: I was able to log in via console tonight, and
attempt one more fix. Rather than update && dist-upgrade, I did `sudo
apt full-upgrade` which did the trick. I found this here:
https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Packages

Probably would have saved me some time. I still got the systemd
warnings but ignored them. I also was able to get autoclean to work.
However, the laptop never loads plasma. In fact, what I see is the old
wallpaper.

I tried `kquitapp5 plasmashell && plasmashell` in a console:
"Application plasmashell could not be found using service
org.kde.plasmashell and path /MainApplication."

kubuntu-plasma5-desktop is installed; apt-get install -f reports
nothing to be installed.

I was out of ideas, when kbroulik suggested: sudo add-apt-repository
ppa:kubuntu-ppa/next
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install plasma-workspace plasma-desktop

after all that, I did a `full-upgrade` again, and this time it
reported nothing held back. So perhaps we have a packaging problem?
Because plasma-workspace and plasma-desktop did the trick; I now have
Plasma 5.

When I tried to load Konversation, which is in the default menu, it
crashed (plasma did). Now I've installed it via the console, weeeeee!
Time for sleep, but at least I can now test!

Valorie


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