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How do I use the kde-unstable repo on Arch?
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I'm very happy to inform you that I broke my system
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
andextra-testing
repos in addition tokde-unstable
as per the wikiI 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 withyay plasma
and then choose the ones from kde-unstable (122-194 for me) but you will have to manually avoid the ones with conflicts likeplasma-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.It's ok, I did a backup with clonezilla before trying it of course :) But thanks for the help
Hopefully helpful:
you need the following packages for kde-unstable:
Your Update likely removed these from your system breaking plasma6
The following packages are likely to blame (this list is likely incomplete):
Edit: if you have terminal access you can try the following (no guarantee it'll work, I think it should but no guarantees):
What I did (switch to plasma 5 versions):
What you could do (switch to git):
Update: the bad packages got updated, you should be fine just installing them from kde-unstable again
Wow, that is incredibly unfortunate timing.
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
It's called kde-unstable for a reason! ;) Packaging issues are expected to happen as it's where the maintainer irons out the issues.