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How do I use the kde-unstable repo on Arch? (lemmy.trippy.pizza)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to try the new Plasma 6 beta so I followed the instructions on the Arch wiki on how to enable the kde-unstable repo and tried to update the system, but when I try pacman says "plasma-activities and kactivities are in conflict", both are required by some of the packages that it's trying to update and there's no way to ignore the conflict.

Does anyone know how to install it?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Hopefully helpful:

you need the following packages for kde-unstable:

plasma-activities
plasma-activities-stats
libplasma

Your Update likely removed these from your system breaking plasma6

The following packages are likely to blame (this list is likely incomplete):

kweather (I removed it since I don't use it)
dolphin (as suggested above switching to dolphin-git should help, alternatively installing extra/dolphin will install the plasma 5 version bypassing the dependency problems)
kio-extras (same fix as for dolphin)
sweeper (see above)

Edit: if you have terminal access you can try the following (no guarantee it'll work, I think it should but no guarantees):

pacman -Rdd kactivites kactivites-stats plasma-framework
pacman -Syudd libplasma plasma-activities plasma-activities-stats

What I did (switch to plasma 5 versions):

pacman -Syudd extra/dolphin extra/sweeper extra/kio-extras extra/kweather

What you could do (switch to git):

$AUR_HELPER -Syu dolphin-git sweeper-git kio-extras-git kweather-git

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Update: the bad packages got updated, you should be fine just installing them from kde-unstable again

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wow, that is incredibly unfortunate timing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

cosmically unfortunate timing, package maintainer probably just took a nap between updating most packages and fixing the leftovers and the resulting gap caused this mayhem

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It's called kde-unstable for a reason! ;) Packaging issues are expected to happen as it's where the maintainer irons out the issues.