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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 Added a new option '-n' or '--dry-run' to the massconvert32.sh script which will show missing/outdated packages without actually converting them.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 March 12th, 2013

A glibc-2.17 multilib update for slackware-current

Today’s update to the Slackware-current ChangeLog.txt comes with a large piece of communication by Pat Volkerding. A new kernel, a start of UEFI boot support in the Slackware installer, and new glibc packages are the most important changes mentioned in the post. If Pat had a blog this would definitely be a proper “blog post” [...]

Posted: 12 March, 2013 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: multilib, uefi
Comments: 5

New IcedTea for OpenJDK 7u17

In order to match the recent Oracle security update for its Java platform, Java 7u17, the IcedTea developers have released version 2.3.8 of the IcedTea “build harness”, with which a fresh OpenJDK 7u17 can be built. This 17th update to Java7 addresses several vulnerabilities, the same as Oracle’s update. It may be worth noting that [...]

Posted: 12 March, 2013 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: cve, icedtea, java, openjdk
Comments: 5

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