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When I updated it came through the update.

MAYBL8 wrote: Wed Sep 02, 2020 12:01 pm When I updated it came through the update.

You still running it as your main system? How's it running?

I've been running great as far as KDE goes. I have an occasional error when trying to install a KDE Theme .
Some MX Tools don't work like the updater so I use discover and it works just fine.
If there is anything you would like me try let me know.
My laptop has an issue with sound and bluetooth but I have had that issue ever since I got it. Has nothing to do with KDE or what distro I am using or what repo I use. Trying all different combinations of firmware and kernels. Just haven't found the right ones yet.

andyprough wrote: Wed Sep 02, 2020 11:02 am

MAYBL8 wrote: Wed Sep 02, 2020 10:58 am Looks like 5.19.5 hit today

No new blog post from Norbert. It's in his repos?

Yes, I updated to 5.19.5 yesterday, but the blog post needs to be written ;-) Real life!

norbert wrote: Wed Sep 02, 2020 5:16 pmYes, I updated to 5.19.5 yesterday, but the blog post needs to be written ;-) Real life!

Just finished my upgrade, this was the smoothest one ever, absolute perfection. Also, 4 months into this experiment and all my MX tools are still working, which was my big concern.

andyprough wrote: Thu Sep 03, 2020 12:04 am Just finished my upgrade, this was the smoothest one ever, absolute perfection.

Well, considering it was a really really minor update from 5.19.4, some translation and small fixes, it is not surprising that nothing big happens.

The next stumbling block is 5.20 which will bring considerable changes from what I read.

norbert wrote: Thu Sep 03, 2020 12:11 amWell, considering it was a really really minor update from 5.19.4, some translation and small fixes, it is not surprising that nothing big happens.

Yes, maybe not too surprising going from 5.19.4 to 5.19.5. But when I think about what I'm doing - upgrading incrementally from 5.18.5 to 5.19.5 using Debian Sid packages for any dependencies KDE needs, but otherwise maintaining a Debian Buster base plus all the MX packages which rely on Buster. I'm surprised it ever worked at all, and here it is 4 months later and 4 or 5 KDE upgrades later and still running strong.

Indeed indeed!!!

norbert wrote: Thu Sep 03, 2020 12:53 am Indeed indeed!!!

Seems like at some point us MX'ers need to say, "with enough apt pinning wizardry, we could consistently run the latest KDE on plain old MX without having to rebuild all the KDE packages".

The problem is with libQt, not with the KDE/Plasma packages. Updating to Qt 5.14 and then running KDE/Plasma should be fine, but all other packages that depend/use Qt 5.12 will be (mostly?) broken.

Honestly said - but I am not a Qt expert - I was always surprised why *EVERY* package needs to be recompiled when a new version of Qt came out. All - and I mean practically ALL - libraries I know are different, that is that they are mostly backward compatible. So maybe there are quite some packages in Debian/buster compiled against libQt 5.12 that would actually run with libQt 5.14, but this is wild guess, I have no deeper insights into the Qt packaging.