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Alien's Slackware packages

Sun, 1 Mar 2015 11:47:25 GMT
libreoffice: updated to 4.4.1. Note that these packages are compiled on Slackware 14.1 (and work fine on -current). These packages will not work on Slackware 14.0 (I have libreoffice-4.1.6 packages for that).
Fri, 27 Feb 2015 23:13:40 GMT
vlc: updated to 2.2.0. First major release in a long time. New libraries: asdcplib, speexdsp. Several internal libraries got an update as well: ffmpeg, libass, libbluray, libdvbpsi, libdvdcss, libdvdnav, libdvdread, libebml, libmatroska, libupnp, libvdpau, live, orc, speex. Usual caveat: versions that can not only DEcode but also ENcode mp3 and aac audio, and can play […]
Sun, 8 Feb 2015 16:51:04 GMT
libreoffice: updated to 4.4.0. Note that these packages are compiled on Slackware 14.1 (and work fine on -current). These packages will not work on Slackware 14.0 (I have libreoffice-4.1.6 packages for that). Recommended: if you work with MS Office documents a lot, you may want to install the two open source font packages google-caladea-font-ttf and […]
Fri, 6 Feb 2015 20:02:11 GMT
chromium: updated to 40.0.2214.111 with working support for Widevine CDM (you will need to install chromium-widevine-plugin for that) chromium-widevine-plugin: upgraded to 40.0.2214.111 (needs chromium of the same version)

Alien's unofficial KDE Slackware packages

Fri, 27 Feb 2015 21:08:57 GMT
current/5/kde/plasma/libksysguard: rebuilt to move dbus files. current/5/kde/plasma/sddm-kcm: rebuilt to move dbus files. current/5/kde/plasma-extra/polkit-kde-kcmodules-framework: rebuilt to move dbus files.
Wed, 25 Feb 2015 19:52:26 GMT
This is KDE 5_15.02_2 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.7.0, Plasma 5.2.1 and Applications 14.12.2. This is meant only to be installed on top of Slackware -current and it will *replace* any version of KDE 4 you migh thave installed! New & changed since my KDE 5_15.02 release: - deps/libssh version 0.6.4 was […]

Alien's multilib packages

Tue, 17 Feb 2015 21:22:18 GMT
14.0/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages. 14.1/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.
Fri, 13 Feb 2015 14:14:02 GMT
current/glibc-2.21_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/glibc-i18n-2.21_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/glibc-profile-2.21_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/glibc-solibs-2.21_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/glibc-zoneinfo-2015a_multilib-noarch-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.

Archive for January 11th, 2013

Alien tip: Volume change percentages in KDE

I have felt frustrated at times, when I press the Volume Up/Down buttons on my keyboard and the sound volume in KDE becomes just too loud, or just too soft. When you are running the KDE desktop, the increments in volume change are controlled by KMix, the KDE mixer. By default, the sound volume changes […]

Posted: 11 January, 2013 in Software.
Tags: kde, tip
Comments: 9

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