Is there a way to install Kasts on Plasma as a non-Flapak package?

[mxethernut]

(If this is the wrong section please move post accordingly)

Is there a way to install Kasts on Plasma as a non-Flapak package? It is by KDE but there is no .deb package available on Debian twelve I think.

The flatpak one seems to freeze my panels, right-click on desktop and latte-dock, hence the whole plasmashell when playing podcasts at times, for me.

Plus it does not respect changes in the color scheme after it was started.

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[Eadwine Rose]

https://apps.kde.org/kasts/

Looks like there is a button that works with Discover. What is does, dunno, not using kde.

[mxethernut]

Thanks but I tried this already. Says: "not in repository".

[Eadwine Rose]

One would think it would get downloaded then by the site.. hmm.. bummer.

[mxethernut]

Edit: I set the flatpak now to only auto-update on start-up, after the app does it successfully, no more Plasmashell freeze for now --------> hm nope does not hold true!

[mxethernut]

might be this issue, when kasts is runningvthe VLC backend!

Cho(o)se another!

viewtopic.php?t=82119

[siamhie]

Is there a way to install Kasts on Plasma as a non-Flapak package? It is by KDE but there is no .deb package available on Debian twelve I think.

Highlights of changes in 24.02.0:

Kasts has been ported to Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6.

Quite possible Kasts 24.0+ found in the KDE store has moved on to Plasma 6.

I was able to track down version 23.08.4-2 from Debian. I can't guarantee this will work. https://packages.debian.org/trixie/kasts (link at the bottom)

[gimcrack]

I was never afraid to build from source. Don't know why many don't choose so. It's a nice skill to have and it isn't hard to do.

git clone https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kasts
cd kasts
mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/usr
make
sudo make install

I do see a issue that might come up.

Note: When using versions of Kasts built from git-master, it's possible that the database format or the name of downloaded files change from one version to another without the necessary migrations to handle it. If you notice bugs after upgrading to a git-master version, export your feeds, delete ~/.local/share/KDE/kasts and import the feeds again.

[Stevo]

Please please please don't suggest that newer users think of trying to install Debian testing packages on a stable MX...

I'm looking at backporting the upstream Kasts 23.08.4, but it's getting tricky. Extra KDE backports are required first, and those need backports in turn, and so on. That "make" above just won't work.

[mxethernut]

Is there a way to install Kasts on Plasma as a non-Flapak package? It is by KDE but there is no .deb package available on Debian twelve I think.

Highlights of changes in 24.02.0:

Kasts has been ported to Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6.

Quite possible Kasts 24.0+ found in the KDE store has moved on to Plasma 6.

I was able to track down version 23.08.4-2 from Debian. I can't guarantee this will work. https://packages.debian.org/trixie/kasts (link at the bottom)

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