Ubuntu on the Nexus 7 [LWN.net]

Ubuntu on the Nexus 7

Posted Nov 27, 2012 17:49 UTC (Tue) by emunson (subscriber, #44357)
Parent article: Ubuntu on the Nexus 7

How hard would it be to install Plasma active on the device once Ubuntu is there already? Do the repos have the necessary bits or would it be an exercise in fun with cross-compilation?

Plasma Active on the Nexus 7

Posted Nov 28, 2012 13:16 UTC (Wed) by sebas (guest, #51660) [Link] (5 responses)

It seems the currently offered set of Plasma Active is a bit old, and not well integrated. So I would not expect much of it. Doing this integration bit will need someone to sit down and work on it. I understand that the Kubuntu team has plans for that in the coming cycle, so maybe, just maybe, there will soon be something more fresh, more complete to play with.

The actual exercise would probably be more of a packaging-and-integration effort than cross-compiling. Most packaging systems make cross-compiling rather easy nowadays (though I have to say that I didn't try this for Debian, it certainly is easy for Mer).

Plasma Active on the Nexus 7

Posted Nov 30, 2012 14:42 UTC (Fri) by juliank (guest, #45896) [Link] (1 responses)

I don't know how far Ubuntu got, but I think that cross compiling most likely is not in a useable state yet. For some stuff like kernels, cross compiling works, but I assume that a lot of packages will not be able to cross compile. There are various reasons for that:

* Running built tests during the package build process
* Not prepared for different host and build architectures
* Build-time dependencies not multi-arch ready

Plasma Active on the Nexus 7

Posted Dec 6, 2012 22:24 UTC (Thu) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]

You can use virtualized build systems, running on qemu, to build whatever packages you need (and I'm pretty sure the Kubuntu developers can also get access to the Launchpad armhf build farm for testing).

Plasma Active on the Nexus 7

Posted Dec 7, 2012 1:47 UTC (Fri) by shmerl (guest, #65921) [Link]

Mer developers are finalizing Mer / Plasma Active adaptation for Nexus 7. Hopefully images will come out sometimes soon.

Plasma Active on the Nexus 7

Posted Dec 10, 2012 19:25 UTC (Mon) by shadeslayer (guest, #68787) [Link]

There are a couple of ongoing things with respect to Plasma Active in the Kubuntu Team. I've taken over the task of packaging Plasma Active 3 from Rodrigo, concurrently we are trying to get maliit into raring. We also have plans to backport PA3 to Quantal. Since we also have KDE Beta's coming out and we have to work on those as well, it's just taking more time due to the limited man power.

Plasma Active on the Nexus 7

Posted Dec 12, 2012 4:43 UTC (Wed) by shmerl (guest, #65921) [Link]

Some update: http://ruedigergad.com/2012/12/09/nexus-7-easily-flashacc...