How to safely upgrade OpenSUSE Tumbleweed to KDE Plasma 6, works wired or wireless

[@aaRept]

I managed to fix my broken update by connecting my laptop to my desktop via a LAN cable and sharing the network in order to have a wired connection. I really wish I watched this video beforehand. Would've saved me a lot of hassle! Thank you very much for sharing!

[@LowTechLinux]

Glad you got it to work. Thank you 👍

[@romeo.mike.365]

Thank you so much!!

[@CRYPTiCEXiLE]

I know what u mean by working 40+ hours a week and doing youtube content at the same time... also i love to play pc games too so that doesnt help either, but it does relax me :)

[@PeterTerpstra7]

Fixed it by turning on wifi in root tty.

[@dezmondwhitney1208]

This video is very useful for those like myself who are aiming to move from Leap to Tumbleweed. Thank you for this helpful upload.

[@LowTechLinux]

You're very welcome!

[@frankmitchell1329]

*promo sm*

[@ShinyHelmet]

I finally got Plasma 6 installed and working thanks to this, although Plasma 6 still seems too flaky to me and i've had some odd things happen visually.

[@LowTechLinux]

It's a little rough around the edges, 6.0.2 is supposed to fix most of that

[@АлександрВоротников-щ7п]

This method works, but my localization is broken and I don’t know how to fix it.

[@LowTechLinux]

I think it's broke in 6.0.1. 6.0.2 afaik is supposed to fix it, we should be getting that soon.

[@АлександрВоротников-щ7п]

@@LowTechLinux I managed to fix the localization on my system. I just needed to install an additional system language in Yast. This procedure provoked the installation of the missing repositories and packages, now everything is in order.

[@LowTechLinux]

excellent. Thank you for sharing

[@plutorocks1]

But I'm not sure plasma 6 settings doesn't find me sddm settings. My fresh install back with Plasma 5 had auto login configured and now I cannot disable auto login without finding the sddm settings. Do you know what can be done?

[@LowTechLinux]

You can change ssdm config file pretty sure located at /usr/lib/sddm/sddm.conf.d You can check the manual with man sddm/conf Autologin should be in section [Autologin] User=name Session=plasma.desktop Should be able to comment out autologin info to disable it. I'm not at the computer right now so I can't give a step by step for you. But that should get you pretty close.

[@plutorocks1]

@@LowTechLinuxYeah but i was looking for the gui settings

[@LowTechLinux]

I gotchya... yes: search for SDDM , then the behavior button. Things have been reshuffled, so SDDM's config has moved, and the "behavior" button is at the top now, above the themes, instead of at the bottom

[@LowTechLinux]

for the record, now that i'm home I can't find it either.

[@plutorocks1]

@@LowTechLinuxWait for new snapshot, they pull kcm_sddm6 into Factory

[@pauledo5026]

how can i install pychess on opensuse tumbleweed?

[@LowTechLinux]

sudo opi pychess

[@timfd.w.4163]

I didnt tried every distro out there but from my , little, knowledge the only distro that solved this bugs and issues while updating and upgrading is FEDORA. Thats because systemd was forked there and the new files are written on boot, almost offline. This avoids system crashes.

[@LowTechLinux]

Fedora does automatically what I've shown to do here manually. Fedora gets some flack for doing it that way but it's definitely safer.

[@timfd.w.4163]

@@LowTechLinux If I am not wrong, OpenSuse has in GRUB one option to UPGRADE system by new image... But again FEDORA solved it better

[@onepercentile]

I've tried many ways to get Plasma6 updated, even suggested here to completely logout of the DE, but I still get greeted with a broken sddm, black desktop, and cursor only. I must have some custom setting somewhere forgotten that's jarring the transition.

[@LowTechLinux]

It's worth a shot to just tty from where ever you are and dup. I had one that I had to do it straight from being logged into an active plasma session with a wifi connection. Just went with Ctrl+alt+f1 and to my surprise it worked fine.

[@onepercentile]

@@LowTechLinux I've followed your instructions to the tee because I wasn't sure what I was overlooking. My Wayland session loads fine, while Xorg renders black over what appears to be a working desktop. I can move my mouse and get text cursors over invisible note widgets, or hit ALT+SPACE quick launch and get a text cursor over the tip centre of the screen when cursor moved over. If I hit CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE I momentarily see the desktop before X unloads. I wonder if this is an NVIDIA DRM issue. Wayland has been unreliable to me up until now, though I give it test runs every now and again. Sddm fixed by returning it to default theme via Wayland session. My issue might be NVIDIA related. Anyone else having similar results?

[@thafluu]

Thank you very much, that worked! :)

[@onepercentile]

Yah! I made it to KDE Plasma 6.0.2 on X11!!!! Whatever nvidia_drm issues I was having which was leading to head modeset flipping errors, a blank black desktop & cursor on X11 plasma 6, were cleared the moment I unplugged my HDMI cord from the GPU directly and inserted into the motherboard HDMI video out. I was worried that I'd lose my GPU support doing this, but turns out they play much nicer together while still giving the same video acceleration and GPU intensive application use. Motherboard is budget PRIME-H510M-D and Nvidia GTX1050ti if this helps anyone from banging their head on the table over this update!!!!

[@johnnylee3505]

Thank you so much. I tried to do it within KDE on both software update app and the terminal which are the wrong ways. Of course, the system broke. Thanks to snapshots, I was able to restore back to pre-update environment. WARNING ! It has to be done on the tty as you can't upgrade KDE plasma in KDE plasma. Thank you for your tips, sir. ❤

[@ZaberfangX]

Thanks for the info, very useful.

[@det0xx842]

Are you using wyland or x11 on KDE 6? Great content as usual. You should check out how POE works for you I have such small spikes noticeable while playing. You should do more tutorials like this. Tumbleweed is a great distrio and very underrated by others.

[@LowTechLinux]

I do use Wayland have I have notice a slight stutter to it. I also use the windows break apart effect when closing windows and notice full screen windows break apart stutters just a bit too.

[@josephlo4531]

@@LowTechLinux so if we want wayland as it is obviously the way forward, do we hold off updating tumberweed to plasma 6 (or not)?

[@LowTechLinux]

@josephlo4531 I don't think so. It has Wayland support built in you can use it now. There's a little stutter here and there so maybe hold off until 6.0.2. This upgrade method will work for that case too. I'm pretty sure we'll have it in about a week or so. But even with the wee little stutter I'm a happy camper so far.

[@josephlo4531]

@@LowTechLinux Thanks for the commentary. Your opensuse video is so far the most informative i can find on youtube, showing all the steps how to do stuff very clearly. Great stuff.👍

[@LowTechLinux]

Thank you very much 👍😊

[@sebastianknapek1467]

i should have followed your guide. i ran the update and got plasma crash. even the snapshot could not recover the system. installing Gnome via terminal helped and now Plasma runs normally.

[@LowTechLinux]

You might have icewm automatically installed too. That's an option maybe. But glad you got it working.

[@sebastianknapek1467]

@@LowTechLinux yes, thats the option... theming looks poor so far, maybe not from the KDE but Layen theme is no available in the store yet. HDR works well, KDE5 on Wayland could not go for 165Hz refresh rate on the screen, only available 144 Hz. KDE6 runs on Wayland 165 Hz and HDR w/o any issue. i guess it was more OpenSuse issue since i.e. Fedora could reach 165 Hz. besides looks to be more responsive environment.

[@oscs4556]

I’m a single click user too.

[@LowTechLinux]

It just makes more sense. We don't double click our phones screens

[@onepercentile]

Phone screens don't have right click either. I find single click good for renaming quickly or to view metadata before exec.