KDE Frameworks 5.31.0 is also available in the repos

Feb 21, 2017 02:35 GMT  ·  By

The developers behind the Chakra GNU/Linux operating system have announced today the immediate availability of all the latest KDE technologies released this month in the stable repositories of the distribution.

Yes, we're talking about the KDE Plasma 5.9.2 desktop environment, KDE Applications 16.12.2 software suite, KDE Frameworks 5.31.0, and KDE Development Platform 4.14.29, all of which can be found in your Chakra GNU/Linux's repos if you want to run the newest KDE software.

The "more" in the article's headline means that the Chakra GNU/Linux users have received many other updated components besides those distributed as part of the KDE Plasma, Applications, and Frameworks. These include ALSA 1.1.3, FFMpeg 2.8.11, Wine 2.2, GStreamer 1.10.3, Vim 8.0.0142, and Mozilla Thunderbird 45.7.1.

Additionally, the Filezilla 3.24.0, Bash 4.4.005, Samba 4.5.3, Wireshark 2.2.4, LibreOffice 5.2.5, QEMU 2.8.0, GNU Screen 4.5.0, GNU nano 2.7.4, GDB 7.12, Gawk 4.1.4, GnuTLS 3.5.8, Gutenprint 5.2.12, JACK 0.125.0, GNU Make 4.2.1, MariaDB 10.1.21, MPlayer 37916, PostgreSQL 9.6.1, Python 2.7.13, PHP 7.0.15, SQLite 3.16.0, GNU Texinfo 6.3 also landed.

But wait, there's more as the Chakra GNU/Linux repositories have been filled with many other updated packages, including GNU Binutils 2.27, GNU readline 7.0.001, ncurses 6.0+20170204, Hunspell 1.6.0, util-linux 2.29, wpa_supplicant 2.6, fcitx-qt 5 1.1.0, dnsutils 9.11.1, and dhcpcd 6.11.5.

A little warning before updating your Chakra GNU/Linux OS

To get all these goodies, use the "sudo pacman -Syu" command in your favorite terminal emulator, but before attempting to update, you should be aware of the fact that your computer's screen might go black for a while, and chances are it will remain like that unless you switch to a virtual console using the CTRL+ALT+F3 keyboard shortcut and then back to the KDE Plasma desktop with CTRL+ALT+F7.

"If that does not work, please give enough time for the upgrade to complete before shutting down," said Neofytos Kolokotronis in today's announcement, recommending users to use the top utility and check the CPU usage while in the virtual console, from where they can also reboot their systems using the "shutdown --reboot" command (without quotes).