MX Modified - Latest MX KDE 5.22 Using MX21 beta

[andyprough]

@MAYBL8 You did it! Living on the true bleeding edge now.

[MAYBL8]

That's me.
But I think experimental is the most bleeding edge.
I think that is what it is called.

[markol]

Hey guys, thank you all for a really great job you're doing!

I followed the instructions in the first post and trying to update the fresh install (19.3) in my VM

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Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.5
Qt Version: 5.15.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.78.0
Kernel Version: 5.8.0-3-amd64
OS Type: 64-bit
Processor: 1 × Intel® Core™ i7-4720HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz
Memory: 3,8 GiB of RAM

Update went well, but System Settings did not work
I had to reinstall qml-module-org-kde-newstuff and qml-module-org-kde-kcm and ta-daaa, settings were there :)

After that I tried Kmail but there were some weird errors. Soon I've found out that kdepim-addons didn't install.
I purged kdepim and tried to reinstall addons, but no success. There are some broken packages (libphonenumber7 if I remember correctly?)
I couldn't get accountwizzard to work (I tried adding email accounts and calendars to Thunderbird without problems).

The last thing I noticed is that apt-notifier stopped working 8MX Updater missing from menu as well)

As far as I can tell, other things work. Great success!

[MAYBL8]

Can you give us a QSI or an inxi -Frxz so we can have some info on your system?
If you are new to Debian Testing or SID you probably should go do some reading on that.
You will have some packages that are in the middle up being changed so there will be some packages being held or broken.

When I first installed norberts repo I had to manually install some packages to get kde working.
Andy created a respin . You could try that it might have some of those already installed.

I just updated to norberts plazma521 last night and am working to see what changes that has made to my system.
All is working pretty good so far.

[andyprough]

After that I tried Kmail but there were some weird errors. Soon I've found out that kdepim-addons didn't install.
I purged kdepim and tried to reinstall addons, but no success. There are some broken packages (libphonenumber7 if I remember correctly?)
I couldn't get accountwizzard to work (I tried adding email accounts and calendars to Thunderbird without problems).

To my knowledge, Kmail has been broken on and off for over ten years and regularly fails to add email accounts and calendars. I have not tried to use it at all with this method, and would advise against it. Good on you to just go with Thunderbird, you should have a much better experience.

[markol]

Can you give us a QSI or an inxi -Frxz so we can have some info on your system?
If you are new to Debian Testing or SID you probably should go do some reading on that.
You will have some packages that are in the middle up being changed so there will be some packages being held or broken.

When I first installed norberts repo I had to manually install some packages to get kde working.
Andy created a respin . You could try that it might have some of those already installed.

I just updated to norberts plazma521 last night and am working to see what changes that has made to my system.
All is working pretty good so far.

As I said, everything else is working well. This was a fresh install of MX Linux 19.3 in VM for testing purposes. I really wanted to have latest Plasma, but not had the balls to do it on my working machine (which is running MX Linux :) )
Repos were looking exactly the same as in the first post of this topic. I switched them back after I stopped playing with broken/held packages so inxi wouldn't do much good

To my knowledge, Kmail has been broken on and off for over ten years and regularly fails to add email accounts and calendars. I have not tried to use it at all with this method, and would advise against it. Good on you to just go with Thunderbird, you should have a much better experience.

Haha I know :D
I've been using Thunderbird (and its predecessors) since Netscape times. I just wanted to give Kmail/Korganizer another chance since I really love apps that are well integrated into the environment. No worries there, TB stays on my main machine :)

I switched to MX Linux not so long ago, but my machines have been running Debian user since... well, long.
MX Linux is what Debian should be in the first place.

[markol]

I switched back to unstable repos and reinstalled kdepim-addons. No errors now, but Kmail still doesn't add new account. I reinstalled accountwizard but still no luck.
Here's my inxi -Frxz

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System:    Host: mentarix Kernel: 5.8.0-3-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.5 
           Distro: MX-19.3_KDE_x64 patito feo November 11 2020 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Virtualbox System: innotek product: VirtualBox v: 1.2 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Oracle model: VirtualBox v: 1.2 serial: <filter> BIOS: innotek v: VirtualBox 
           date: 12/01/2006 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 50.0 Wh condition: 50.0/50.0 Wh (100%) model: innotek 1 status: Full 
CPU:       Topology: Single Core model: Intel Core i7-4720HQ bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Haswell rev: 3 
           L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 5189 
           Speed: 2595 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 2595 
Graphics:  Device-1: VMware SVGA II Adapter driver: vmwgfx v: 2.18.0.0 bus ID: 00:02.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: vmware unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1356x747~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 10.0.0 256 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 20.1.8 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801AA AC97 Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel bus ID: 00:05.0 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.0-3-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Intel 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet driver: e1000 v: 7.3.21-k8-NAPI port: d020 
           bus ID: 00:03.0 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI type: network bridge driver: piix4_smbus v: N/A 
           port: d200 bus ID: 00:07.0 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 15.09 GiB used: 2.68 TiB (18217.9%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: VirtualBox model: VBOX HARDDISK size: 15.09 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 12.79 GiB used: 8.08 GiB (63.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:   Message: No sensors data was found. Is sensors configured? 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb https://ftp.arnes.si/mirrors/mxlinux/packages/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
           2: deb https://ftp.arnes.si/mirrors/mxlinux/packages/mx/repo/ buster ahs
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/unstable.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
           2: deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-kde:/apps2012/Debian_Unstable/ ./
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 161 Uptime: 26m Memory: 3.85 GiB used: 872.4 MiB (22.2%) Init: systemd runlevel: 5 
           Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 inxi: 3.0.36

MX Updater still not showing.

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sudo apt install apt-notifier --upgrade

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The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 apt-notifier : Depends: python-pyqt5 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Other MX Tools seem to be working.

[andyprough]

MX Updater still not showing.

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sudo apt install apt-notifier --upgrade

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The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 apt-notifier : Depends: python-pyqt5 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Other MX Tools seem to be working.

I don't know that we've managed to get MX Updater running with MX KDE Sid. What you could try is to trick apt into installing it - disable Sid and Norbert's repos and enable the Buster repo. Then 'sudo apt update' but do not upgrade. Then try 'sudo apt install apt-notifier' without the '--upgrade' (or with it if it helps). If it installs, then quickly disable Buster repo and enable Sid and Norbert's repos again. Something like that. Could be that it's just incompatible with this advanced plasma desktop no matter what you try though.

[dolphin_oracle]

apt-notifier for the post-python2 world is under development but not ready yet.

[MAYBL8]

@dolphin_oracle If you need it tested based on sid let us know. I would be happy to test something for you.