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Alien's Slackware packages

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:34:38 GMT
teamspeak-client: updated to 3.0.10.1. […]
Sat, 15 Jun 2013 09:19:28 GMT
libtorrent-rasterbar: updated to 0.16.9. qbittorrent: updated to 3.0.9 (depends on libtorrent-rasterbar). […]
Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:59:14 GMT
python-lxml: updated to 3.2.1 to fix the .docx conversion in calibre. […]
Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:54:07 GMT
calibre: updated to 0.9.35. For the (unchanged) dependency list, see further down in the ChangeLog.txt. […]

Alien's unofficial KDE Slackware packages

Sun, 9 Jun 2013 22:27:34 GMT
14.0/kde/kde-runtime: Use -DSAMBA_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/samba-4.0 with cmake to fix building kio_smb.so (fixes the 'invalid protocol' error in Dolphin when typing smb:// URIs). […]
Tue, 4 Jun 2013 18:54:12 GMT
This is the KDE Software Compilation 4.10.4 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 4.10.3 packages installed then the […]

Alien's multilib packages

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:10:45 GMT
current/gcc-4.8.1_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/gcc-g++-4.8.1_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/gcc-gfortran-4.8.1_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/gcc-gnat-4.8.1_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/gcc-go-4.8.1_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/gcc-java-4.8.1_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded […]
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 Added a new option '-n' or '--dry-run' to the massconvert32.sh script which will show missing/outdated packages without actually converting them.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 […]

Archive for December 16th, 2012

Valve’s Steam client for Linux

It was august 2012 when I wrote an article about the viability of commercial games on Linux. In particular, I was talking about the new Steam client for Linux which Valve Software was developing. Read that article now if you have not seen it yet, it will give insight as to where I stand with [...]

Posted: 16 December, 2012 in Games, Slackware, Software.
Tags: steam, valve
Comments: 18

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