simonlang Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 We have finished packaging Plasma 5 beta 1 and it is in https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/nextI am pleased that kactivities are once again operational! Some things to be aware of while upgrade/installing: I had run into an issue on my desktop, I have a Nvidia card and to resolve this bug:Bug 1377321 You absolutely have to have lightdm installed or you will end up without nvidia drivers. Resulting in a black or no screen.Evidently, sddm is not supported yet with nvidia, I filed the bug in hopes this will get resolved..In order to get a functional system I had to chroot into my system from a livecd and reinstall nvidia-331 and allowing it to installalot of unity/gnome stuff (apparently for lightdm?) and it then booted fine. I hope it gets fixed soon..Some good instructions to repair your system via livecd chroot can be found here:http://www.webupd8.org/2014/01/how-to-fix-non-bootable-ubuntu-system.html Other users that installed new systems (not upgrades) have run into:Bug 1377269You will need to force overwrite with:sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libkf5sysguard5-data_4%3a5.0.95-0ubuntu1~ubuntu14.10~ppa4_amd64.deb I am completely baffled as to how new installs are affected and upgrades are not. Please, if you are affected by either of these bugs go to the bug and select This bug affects you. Especially the Nvidia one, as we do not haveany control over Nvidia drivers. My laptop install was relatively pain free. I had to run individual apt-get install on a couple of held packages.So with that said, the joys of testing software!If you would like to assist us in making this a great release, please join us in #kubuntu-devel and help us test! source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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