Any news on KDE 6.1?
You would have to ask the EPEL maintainers since KDE is in their repositories and not managed by the Rocky Team.
Sorry for being ignorant, how does that work? EPEL maintainers for Rocky or RedHat…
EPEL maintains it’s packages in it’s own repositories - so KDE. Rocky team do not maintain them. Therefore, no Rocky support for packages maintained by other people.
EPEL is a repository for EL-based distributions, so RHEL, Alma, Rocky, etc. So why would Rocky and the team be responsible for something that they have no control over and are not involved in managing or maintaining?
That is why you need to ask EPEL. Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) :: Fedora Docs
So I must have been using that repository when I installed KDE 5? Sorry, I still have a seen through a fog view of how things work in regard to these issues.
Yep, Red Hat don’t package KDE in RHEL, and therefore Rocky doesn’t have it either by default. It’s only available because EPEL maintainers made it available and thus people can use it.
The official desktop in RHEL or Rocky is Gnome. I for example use Cinnamon Desktop with Rocky, but that comes from a COPR repository. So also similar to how KDE in EPEL works.
Best chance for this is…
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/loise/kde-plasma-6/
I’ll let you know if it is broken later. 
I’m down to these errors…
Error: Transaction test error:
file /usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/libphonon_qt.qm from install of phonon-qt5-4.11.1-9.el9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package phonon-common-4.12.0-6.el9.noarch
file /usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/phononsettings_qt.qm from install of phonon-qt5-4.11.1-9.el9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package phonon-common-4.12.0-6.el9.noarch
file /usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/libphonon_qt.qm from install of phonon-qt5-4.11.1-9.el9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package phonon-common-4.12.0-6.el9.noarch
file /usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/phononsettings_qt.qm from install of phonon-qt5-4.11.1-9.el9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package phonon-common-4.12.0-6.el9.noarch
file /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/phononsettings_qt.qm from install of phonon-qt5-4.11.1-9.el9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package phonon-common-4.12.0-6.el9.noarch
file /usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/libphonon_qt.qm from install of phonon-qt5-4.11.1-9.el9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package phonon-common-4.12.0-6.el9.noarch
file /usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/libphonon_qt.qm from install of phonon-qt5-4.11.1-9.el9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package phonon-common-4.12.0-6.el9.noarch
file /usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/libphonon_qt.qm from install of phonon-qt5-4.11.1-9.el9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package phonon-common-4.12.0-6.el9.noarch
file /usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/phononsettings_qt.qm from install of phonon-qt5-4.11.1-9.el9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package phonon-common-4.12.0-6.el9.noarch
file /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/phononsettings_qt.qm from install of phonon-qt5-4.11.1-9.el9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package phonon-common-4.12.0-6.el9.noarch
file /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/phononsettings_qt.qm from install of phonon-qt5-4.11.1-9.el9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package phonon-common-4.12.0-6.el9.noarch
file /usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/phononsettings_qt.qm from install of phonon-qt5-4.11.1-9.el9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package phonon-common-4.12.0-6.el9.noarch
file /usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/libphonon_qt.qm from install of phonon-qt5-4.11.1-9.el9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package phonon-common-4.12.0-6.el9.noarch
file /usr/share/locale/sr@ijekavian/LC_MESSAGES/libphonon_qt.qm from install of phonon-qt5-4.11.1-9.el9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package phonon-common-4.12.0-6.el9.noarch
file /usr/share/locale/sr@ijekavianlatin/LC_MESSAGES/libphonon_qt.qm from install of phonon-qt5-4.11.1-9.el9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package phonon-common-4.12.0-6.el9.noarch
file /usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/libphonon_qt.qm from install of phonon-qt5-4.11.1-9.el9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package phonon-common-4.12.0-6.el9.noarch
file /usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/libphonon_qt.qm from install of phonon-qt5-4.11.1-9.el9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package phonon-common-4.12.0-6.el9.noarch
file /usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/phononsettings_qt.qm from install of phonon-qt5-4.11.1-9.el9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package phonon-common-4.12.0-6.el9.noarch
file /usr/bin/phononsettings from install of phonon-qt5-4.11.1-9.el9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package phonon-qt6-4.12.0-6.el9.x86_64
file /etc/xdg/konsolerc from install of konsole5-part-23.08.5-1.el9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package konsole-part-24.02.2-1.el9.x86_64
file /usr/share/konsole/Breeze.colorscheme from install of konsole5-part-23.08.5-1.el9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package konsole-part-24.02.2-1.el9.x86_64
file /etc/xdg/autostart/baloo_file.desktop from install of kf5-baloo-file-5.115.0-2.el9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kf6-baloo-file-6.2.0-1.el9.x86_64
file /usr/lib/systemd/user/kde-baloo.service from install of kf5-baloo-file-5.115.0-2.el9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kf6-baloo-file-6.2.0-1.el9.x86_64
Can I delete the files that are on the system causing the conflict?
I think it’s saying you have bits of qt5, did you clean uninstall qt5 first?
That’s what I’ll try next.
I’ve fully messed up KDE and reverted to Gnome for now.
I think it is connected to replacing files x86_64 with noarch. There are tool for QT, I’ll check that out next.
There are a lot of other packages requiring KF5 components, which are conflicts with the same KF6 packages. So, building KF6 also requires to build a set of KF5 packages with appropriate changes. Looks like that corp’s maintainer haven’t build them.
Here is the list of those packages raven-rhel8/KF5 at master - raven-rhel8 - Raven's Git repo
Note that in this case you will not have the option of using both KF6 and KF5 at the same time.
I think I’m OK to drop using KF5.
Might take me a day to get what it is you are saying.
Well that was all a fail…
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/loise/kde-plasma-6/
Might have been a full setup with dependencies but it failed.
I reinstalled the version in EPEL.
To be honest, a week of Groan was too much.
@Yani yeah, looks like building them for el9 is more tricky and doesnt worth the effort at this time. Some of packages like kwin requires more recent Qt6 version than shipped in EPEL. It was easy to build it for el8, since it doesn’t have qt6 at all and I already had my own build of recent qt6. So probably it would be a bit easier when EPEL guys will update qt6 to 6.7+.
If you want to test it on a rocky 8 , use raven repository. It contains either wayland either X11 of plasma 6.
https://pkgs.dyn.su/el8/
Rocky 9.4 – I messed about with Plasma 6 for a few weeks and never got a successful install. I reverted to Plasma 5 as I couldn’t put up with using Gnome any longer.
I succeed on running it on Rocky 8, modifying /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients and using plasma 6 with X11 (substitute startkde with starplasma-x11)
I have been using Plasma 6.2.4 on Fedora 40, and it is a step backward from Plasma 5 as far as I am concerned. It doesn’t restore terminals and windows to virtual desktops as Plasma 5 did, nor does it restore windows to their location on the desktop.
I used to keep two windows of Firefox open. One for browsing and one for zoneminder. I offset them on the desktop to be able to switch between them. Plasma 5 tracked the position of the windows and would open them at the last location. Plasma 6 opens them on top of each other.
In my opinion, Plasma 6.2.4 is not ready for prime time. YMMV
AFAIK, this is a tribute to Wayland, not Plasma’s fault. See this discussion at kde.org.
Have you tried to run Plasma 6 using X11?
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My mistake.
You are correct. This is a Wayland issue and not Plasma 6.