You can answer that EndeavourOS uses the Arch repositories, so it does the same as Arch.
It is the alpha release, not the git version:
source=(https://download.kde.org/unstable/plasma/$_dirver/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.xz{,.sig})
source=(https://download.kde.org/unstable/frameworks/$pkgver/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.xz{,.sig})
Thank you! Have relayed your answer to Nate:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477477
Edit: typo.
But kde-unstable packaging still much in flux with breaking dependencies. If you have a working alpha version I suggest you still wait for now.
Thank you. I read the info you linked to. Breakage is to be expected, they say.
I’ll wait for now.
just tried almost working… i needed to rebuild dolphin to get it working (using dolphin-git) had some dependency issues frim kde-unstable…
I would recommend to install from blank install not try to upgrade current kde… it wa sa little bit messy to get this working.
So recommend to install “headless” add kde-unstable in pacman.conf and you should be able to go with sudo pacman -Syu plasma in virtualbox default wayland session was not working but xorg is…
Ok, I got the dependency breakage and aborted the upgrade earlier, then I decided to savage my installation and force it. However, when I tried the next update, everything flowed w/o any input (as to package moves etc) and Plasma started right up. My startup error (which had been persistent) is now gone.
Once my brain wakes up, I might try testing what we’ve found were problematical pre-beta.
Transparency in konsole is apparently back to working…I did notice that immediately.
Progress indeed!
I will be away from laptop, home and central heating for the day, so won’t be able to see how things will behave (or not) at my end.
My plan is (against advice) to try to update from pre-beta. If that breaks my setup, I’ll start from scratch, as suggested above.
Yes, I would certainly say try the (now) seamless update.
We can always fall back to reinstall cleanly if it becomes necessary (but I doubt it will).
It appears to me that the energy-saving controls for screen dimming and blanking are now disabled, but that’s probably better than my monitor getting permanently dimmed to a low level. It is possible that it doesn’t dim when media is playing. I’ll test that later 
I will construe from that, this is a known issue and probably working on it, but currently unresolved.
So, I wanted to try the beta.
I therefore added to my /etc/pacman.conf the following line:
[kde-unstable]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
I also removed the # from everyything testing. Then I started an update:
sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
endeavouros is up to date
core is up to date
extra 8,3 MiB 20,2 MiB/s 00:00 [-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%
multilib is up to date
kde-unstable 212,0 KiB 1669 KiB/s 00:00 [-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
there is nothing to do
Then I tried update the framework like mentioned above:
sudo pacman -S kf6
:: There are 70 members in group kf6:
:: Repository kde-unstable
1) attica 2) baloo 3) bluez-qt 4) breeze-icons 5) extra-cmake-modules 6) frameworkintegration 7) karchive 8) kauth 9) kbookmarks 10) kcalendarcore 11) kcmutils 12) kcodecs 13) kcolorscheme 14) kcompletion 15) kconfig 16) kconfigwidgets 17) kcontacts 18) kcoreaddons 19) kcrash 20) kdav
21) kdbusaddons 22) kdeclarative 23) kded 24) kdesu 25) kdnssd 26) kdoctools 27) kfilemetadata 28) kglobalaccel 29) kguiaddons 30) kholidays 31) ki18n 32) kiconthemes 33) kidletime 34) kimageformats 35) kio 36) kirigami 37) kitemmodels 38) kitemviews 39) kjobwidgets 40) knewstuff
41) knotifications 42) knotifyconfig 43) kpackage 44) kparts 45) kpeople 46) kplotting 47) kpty 48) kquickcharts 49) krunner 50) kservice 51) kstatusnotifieritem 52) ksvg 53) ktexteditor 54) ktexttemplate 55) ktextwidgets 56) kunitconversion 57) kwallet 58) kwidgetsaddons 59) kwindowsystem
60) kxmlgui 61) modemmanager-qt 62) networkmanager-qt 63) prison 64) purpose 65) qqc2-desktop-style 66) solid 67) sonnet 68) syndication 69) syntax-highlighting 70) threadweaver
Enter a selection (default=all):
resolving dependencies...
:: There are 2 providers available for qt6-multimedia-backend:
:: Repository extra
1) qt6-multimedia-ffmpeg 2) qt6-multimedia-gstreamer
Enter a number (default=1): 1
looking for conflicting packages...
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: qt6-multimedia-ffmpeg will be installed before its qt6-multimedia dependency
Package (79) Old Version New Version Net Change
extra/polkit-qt6 0.175.0-1 0,31 MiB
extra/poppler-qt6 23.10.0-1 0,71 MiB
extra/qca-qt6 2.3.7-2 3,37 MiB
extra/qt6-5compat 6.6.1-1 1,64 MiB
extra/qt6-multimedia 6.6.1-1 4,85 MiB
extra/qt6-multimedia-ffmpeg 6.6.1-1 0,49 MiB
extra/qt6-speech 6.6.1-1 0,51 MiB
extra/qt6-svg 6.6.1-1 0,64 MiB
extra/qt6-wayland 6.6.1-1 7,10 MiB
kde-unstable/attica 5.246.0-1 1,74 MiB
kde-unstable/baloo 5.246.0-1 2,45 MiB
kde-unstable/bluez-qt 5.246.0-1 2,49 MiB
kde-unstable/breeze-icons 5.112.0-1 5.246.0-1 0,31 MiB
kde-unstable/extra-cmake-modules 5.246.1-1 1,75 MiB
kde-unstable/frameworkintegration 5.246.0-1 0,23 MiB
kde-unstable/karchive 5.246.0-1 1,04 MiB
kde-unstable/kauth 5.246.0-1 0,71 MiB
kde-unstable/kbookmarks 5.246.0-1 1,07 MiB
kde-unstable/kcalendarcore 5.246.0-1 3,44 MiB
kde-unstable/kcmutils 5.246.0-1 1,35 MiB
kde-unstable/kcodecs 5.246.0-1 1,00 MiB
kde-unstable/kcolorscheme 5.246.0-1 0,41 MiB
kde-unstable/kcompletion 5.246.0-1 1,08 MiB
kde-unstable/kconfig 5.246.0-1 3,17 MiB
kde-unstable/kconfigwidgets 5.246.0-1 1,96 MiB
kde-unstable/kcontacts 1:5.246.0-1 2,10 MiB
kde-unstable/kcoreaddons 5.246.0-1 3,16 MiB
kde-unstable/kcrash 5.246.0-1 0,22 MiB
kde-unstable/kdav 1:5.246.0-1 1,03 MiB
kde-unstable/kdbusaddons 5.246.0-1 0,44 MiB
kde-unstable/kdeclarative 5.246.0-1 0,84 MiB
kde-unstable/kded 5.246.0-1 0,11 MiB
kde-unstable/kdesu 5.246.0-1 0,50 MiB
kde-unstable/kdnssd 5.246.0-1 0,63 MiB
kde-unstable/kdoctools 5.246.0-1 2,50 MiB
kde-unstable/kfilemetadata 5.246.0-1 1,51 MiB
kde-unstable/kglobalaccel 5.246.0-1 0,49 MiB
kde-unstable/kguiaddons 5.246.0-1 0,80 MiB
kde-unstable/kholidays 1:5.246.0-1 1,16 MiB
kde-unstable/ki18n 5.246.0-1 17,73 MiB
kde-unstable/kiconthemes 5.246.0-1 1,21 MiB
kde-unstable/kidletime 5.246.0-1 0,38 MiB
kde-unstable/kimageformats 5.246.0-1 0,82 MiB
kde-unstable/kio 5.246.0-1 22,14 MiB
kde-unstable/kirigami 5.246.0-1 4,12 MiB
kde-unstable/kitemmodels 5.246.0-1 1,07 MiB
kde-unstable/kitemviews 5.246.0-1 0,89 MiB
kde-unstable/kjobwidgets 5.246.0-1 0,79 MiB
kde-unstable/knewstuff 5.246.0-1 3,23 MiB
kde-unstable/knotifications 5.246.0-1 0,66 MiB
kde-unstable/knotifyconfig 5.246.0-1 0,38 MiB
kde-unstable/kpackage 5.246.0-1 0,89 MiB
kde-unstable/kparts 5.246.0-1 1,15 MiB
kde-unstable/kpeople 5.246.0-1 0,96 MiB
kde-unstable/kplotting 5.246.0-1 0,47 MiB
kde-unstable/kpty 5.246.0-1 0,40 MiB
kde-unstable/kquickcharts 5.246.0-1 0,62 MiB
kde-unstable/krunner 5.246.0-1 0,79 MiB
kde-unstable/kservice 5.246.0-1 0,95 MiB
kde-unstable/kstatusnotifieritem 5.246.0-1 0,56 MiB
kde-unstable/ksvg 5.246.0-1 0,77 MiB
kde-unstable/ktexteditor 5.246.0-1 14,25 MiB
kde-unstable/ktexttemplate 5.246.0-1 2,51 MiB
kde-unstable/ktextwidgets 5.246.0-1 2,10 MiB
kde-unstable/kunitconversion 5.246.0-1 10,97 MiB
kde-unstable/kwallet 5.246.0-1 2,45 MiB
kde-unstable/kwidgetsaddons 5.246.0-1 11,45 MiB
kde-unstable/kwindowsystem 5.246.0-1 1,77 MiB
kde-unstable/kxmlgui 5.246.0-1 4,25 MiB
kde-unstable/modemmanager-qt 5.246.0-1 1,49 MiB
kde-unstable/networkmanager-qt 5.246.0-1 3,95 MiB
kde-unstable/prison 5.246.0-1 0,65 MiB
kde-unstable/purpose 5.246.0-1 1,58 MiB
kde-unstable/qqc2-desktop-style 5.246.0-1 1,80 MiB
kde-unstable/solid 5.246.0-1 2,68 MiB
kde-unstable/sonnet 5.246.0-1 2,16 MiB
kde-unstable/syndication 5.246.0-1 1,46 MiB
kde-unstable/syntax-highlighting 5.246.0-1 2,88 MiB
kde-unstable/threadweaver 5.246.0-1 0,88 MiB
Total Installed Size: 261,08 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 189,58 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
(79/79) checking keys in keyring [-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%
(79/79) checking package integrity [-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%
(79/79) loading package files [-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%
(79/79) checking for file conflicts [-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
baloo: /etc/xdg/autostart/baloo_file.desktop exists in filesystem (owned by baloo5)
baloo: /usr/lib/systemd/user/kde-baloo.service exists in filesystem (owned by baloo5)
baloo: /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.kde.BalooWatcherApplication.xml exists in filesystem (owned by baloo5)
baloo: /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.kde.baloo.file.indexer.xml exists in filesystem (owned by baloo5)
baloo: /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.kde.baloo.fileindexer.xml exists in filesystem (owned by baloo5)
baloo: /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.kde.baloo.main.xml exists in filesystem (owned by baloo5)
baloo: /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.kde.baloo.scheduler.xml exists in filesystem (owned by baloo5)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
So what did I wrong here? Looking forward to test plasma6…
Add kde-unstable between endeavouros and core.
Also, testing repos are not visible… are they still commented out?
You need to do
sudo pacman -Syyu
Ty, found my error - forgot one of the testing repos!
KDE 6 looks good - I had to change one simple setting (remove the “floating” from the main panel) and that’s that. Will test a bit. Next up: Set up Galileo with Wayland and upgrade to plasma6.
testing again installimng from Galileo ISO without Desktop.
adding only the kde-unstable to pacman.conf and installing pülasma group ignoring kgamma5 seems some dep not resolbved…
pacman -S plasma --ignore kgamma5
and say N to ignore the ignorance in the process
will change soon i bet and you can install without workarounds… no conficting files in this case and clean configs.
Installing dolphin is also working now without rebuilding it…
I’ve been lurking on this thread and considering testing Plasma 6 myself, but I’m currently doing a “force Gnome down my throat” experiment so I guess I’ll wait a bit longer.
For those of you that have been testing it, bugs aside, is there any notable change you are enjoying?
I’ve been reading the KDE blogposts when I come across them and it seems that most of the work is just “under the hood” (which is fantastic in and of itself, I’m not complaining).
I was just wondering if there are any changes that are either visually apparent or “UX”, that are fresh and cool.
Well there are some UI changes in edit mode. Maybe a few little things in the panels too. But mainly Plasma 6 is porting the code from Qt5 to Qt6. And yes, as I understand it, at this point it’s mostly feature parity work. Perfomance improvements under Wayland also…but nothing really visible.
I believe I’ve read that new features are more likely to appear incrementally after Plasma6 is released.
Hope this is not TOO sarcastic (umm yeah), but apparently the KDE developers don’t like to change the entire paradigm unlike the Gnome folks on every release 
Aside: The screen brightness issue persists, despite my thinking it was disabled. Guess I’ll try to figure out how to report it (assuming it’s not been).
With your background that’ll be a doddle as the Brits say (I have been told).
I’m no expert in reporting plasma or kde-bugs but I’ve now reported 6 or so in total.
What I do not always find easy is to find the right app to report the bug against, or to recognize duplicates.
But people over at KDE have been very patient with me, and edited my reports if needed. And sometimes they have asked questions to get clarifications.
It’s important to add “qt6” in the field “keywords”, to mark the report as pertaining to Qt6/Plasma5.
BTW: making screen recordings with Spectacle (in my case to clarify a bug I wanted to report) fails on my Plasma 6/Qt6 setup. There seems to be a connection with the bug report I was trying to clarify: previews of running apps on taskbar are “empty”[1].
Previews seem to be somewhat unreliable here. Most of the time they work, sometimes they need a second, sometimes they show up empty.
Screen recording is working here.
I haven’t updated for 2 days now. Tomorrow I’ll be reunited with my laptop, and will do the update. Fingers crossed. If that goes well, I’ll test the previews and screen recording again.
