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Alien's Slackware packages

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:46:54 GMT
tigervnc: rebuilt the v1.1.0 package for slackware-current because the old package of Slackware 14 stopped working after the latest -current update, due to a missing library. […]
Wed, 22 May 2013 12:25:15 GMT
mozilla-firefox-l10n: refreshed the script for firefox 21 and upwards, where the installation directory has changed. […]
Fri, 17 May 2013 09:50:01 GMT
calibre: updated to 0.9.31. For the (unchanged) dependency list, see further down in the ChangeLog.txt. […]
Thu, 16 May 2013 21:58:29 GMT
libstatgrab: added v0.17 - a system statistics library. obconf: updated to cfde287_20121007git (depends on openbox) openbox: updated to 3.5.0 razor-qt: updated to 0.5.2 (depends on libstatgrab, optionally uses openbox as its Window Manager) sddm: added 20130516git - SDDM is the Simple Display Desktop Manager, and a candidate for KDM's eventual replaceme […]

Alien's unofficial KDE Slackware packages

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:56:21 GMT
14.0/kde/kdelibs: Patched to fix a crash exiting KDE or quitting some apps (KDEBUG 319137) […]
Thu, 9 May 2013 22:11:31 GMT
This is the KDE Software Compilation 4.10.3 for Slackware 14.0. Now that Slackware-current has an official set of KDE 4.10.x packages, provided by Patrick Volkerding, I am offering my own packages for Slackware 14.0 - so that users of this stable release can enjoy the KDE upgrade as well. If you already have my previous KDE 4.10.2 packages installed then the […]

Alien's multilib packages

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:04:54 GMT
14.0/compat32-tools-3.0-noarch-9alien.tgz: See below. current/compat32-tools-3.0-noarch-9alien.tgz: Added l/harfbuzz and l/icu4c to the massconvert32.sh script as new dependencies of l/pango. Added a new option '-n' or '--dry-run' to the massconvert32.sh script which will show missing/outdated packages without actually converting them. cu […]
Mon, 6 May 2013 20:50:39 GMT
13.0/glibc-zoneinfo-2013c_multilib-noarch-3alien.txz: Copied from current. 13.1/glibc-zoneinfo-2013c_multilib-noarch-3alien.txz: Copied from current. 13.37/glibc-zoneinfo-2013c_multilib-noarch-3alien.txz: Copied from current. 14.0/glibc-zoneinfo-2013c_multilib-noarch-3alien.txz: Copied from current. current/glibc-2.17_multilib-x86_64-3alien.txz: Rebuilt. cur […]

Archive for October 18th, 2012

The fifth release in the “TwoFlower” series of the VLC media player is ready. Version 2.0.4 is said to be “a major update that fixes a lot of regressions, issues and security issues in this branch. It introduces Opus support, improves Youtube, Vimeo streams and Blu-Ray dics support. It also fixes many issues in playback, [...]

Posted: 18 October, 2012 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: videolan, vlc
Comments: 23

OpenJDK 7 Update 9 with IcedTea 2.3.3 fixes security flaws

Shortly after Oracle released its own Update 9 for Java7, there was a similar update from the IcedTea team. New releases of IcedTea for OpenJDK6 and OpenJDK7 fix several critical security bugs. The version of IcedTea which I use (2.3.3) builds a OpenJDK 7 Update 9 package. I also wanted to inform you about the [...]

Posted: 18 October, 2012 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: java, openjdk, oracle
Comments: 11

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