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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] 7 points 11 months ago (9 children)

You can do sudo pacman -Syudd where the dd is for ignoring dependencies to force it through. But be aware this is basically asking for things to break. Some packages haven't been updated to the latest versions yet. For example dolphin wouldn't launch so I had to switch to dolphin-git from the AUR.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (7 children)

I'm very happy to inform you that I broke my system

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

As long as you still have access to the cli it should be fixable. If you want to still try to get to plasma 6 make sure you also enabled the core-testing and extra-testing repos in addition to kde-unstable as per the wiki

If you enable any other testing repository listed in the following subsections, you must also enable both core-testing and extra-testing

I missed that little snippet when I first swapped over.

If you do yay kf6 you can install all of the framework-related packages which might also help fill out some missing dependencies. For me it's 1-71. You can do the same with yay plasma and then choose the ones from kde-unstable (122-194 for me) but you will have to manually avoid the ones with conflicts like plasma-framework.

But if you want to try and revert theoretically simply removing the testing and unstable repos and doing another sudo pacman -Syu should get you back onto the older versions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It's ok, I did a backup with clonezilla before trying it of course :) But thanks for the help

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