KDE 4.2.1 Released – In openSUSE repository
If you haven’t heard by now the first bugfix release is out for the KDE 4.2 branch, here’s a snippit from kde.org:
March 4th, 2009. holiday inn express . The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of “Cream”, (a.k.a KDE 4.2.1), another bugfix and maintenance update for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. Cream is a monthly update to KDE 4.2. It ships with desktop workspace and many cross-platform applications such as administration programs, network tools, educational applications, utilities, multimedia software, games, artwork, web development tools and more. KDE’s award-winning tools and applications are available in more than 50 languages.
The KDE 4.2 Desktop
KDE, including all its libraries and its applications, is available for free under Open Source licenses. KDE can be obtained in source and various binary formats from http://download.kde.org and can also be obtained on CD-ROM or with any of the major GNU/Linux and UNIX systems shipping today.
Enhancements
As a service release, the changelog contains a list of bugfixes and improvements. The most notable improvements have been made to Okular, the document viewer, Kopete, the instant messaging client, KMail, KDE’s email client and of course KHTML which got its usual slew of fixes, optimizations and improvements. Note that the changelog is usually incomplete, for a complete list of changes that went into KDE 4.2.1, you can browse the Subversion log. warren nj . self storage . KDE 4.2.1 also ships a more complete set of translations.
It is also worthwhile to note that 4.2.1 is now in the KDE4:Factory openSUSE repository. To add for openSUSE 11.1 you can do the following:
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.1/ KDE 4 Factory
Then update using:
sudo zypper up -t package -r KDE 4 Factory -y
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Thank you! Updated yesterday. Unfortuntely on opensuse 11.0, Okular crashes when attempting to load any pdf file – in 4.2 everything worked fine. The message is *** glibc detected *** okular: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0826dab8 *** and backtrace follows.
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Hi,
Just upgraded to KDE 4.2 on openSUSE 11.1. I used your step by step guide.
But now neither the digital watch on the menubar or the analog widget clock work
The analog shows “0:00″ and the digital is just plain blank…
Any ideas to the cause of this problem ? and a solution ?
Thank you in advance
Henrik,
What version of KDE did you come from? 4.2 to 4.2.1? or 4.1.x to 4.2.1?
Have you tried to remove the widget and read?
Reisub,
Try removing, and readding Okular (and clearing Okular config files in .kde4. I don’t have an issue on my test box with it.
@ben.kevan
Thank you for your reply. The crashing did not go away, though. I can manage without Okular, as there are other document viewers, although Okular works best for my needs. I can see there are many others complaining about Okular crashing and being basically unusable on bugs.kde.org – maybe it’s just a bug that needs to be fixed.
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@ben.kevan
Hi Ben,
but I just read on their website that it is
I upgraded from the version shipping with the OpenSUSE 11.1 install DVD
I can’t remember what it was
“KDE 4.1.3″
But it seems to go a little deeper than just related to that one widget.
I just tested the widgets that is selectable in the “Add widgets” dialog (Ctrl-a).
The twitter widget displays an error message “Failed to load twitter dataengine”…
Hi,
Just wanted to say that problem with the clock is now fixed.
Looks like I wasn’t the only one having problems, after installing
updates yesterday and today, everything seems fine.
I love Linux
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What updates did you do? I just did the same path as ou KDE 4.1.3 from initial install then up to KDE 4.2.1 using the above metho and have the same Digital Clock error and twitter error. I just am nog getting any updates to perform.
Jason, try to update Plasma and all other unupdated KDE-packets (that has a version of 4.1.3). After that the problem disappears.