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Comment on KDE 4.8.0 arrives by Willy Sudiarto Raharjo

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:55:51 +0000

Yes, it’s the right to do if you want to stick with Eric’s KDE packages, but soon or later, it will be added into Slackware-Current (hopefully soon enough)

Comment on KDE 4.8.0 arrives by schultzter

schultzter — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:50:13 +0000

Thanks Willy, I put that into my blacklist earlier but this confirms I got it right.

But I’m assuming I also need to blacklist Slackware’s official KDE packages since I’m using Alien’s now, right?

Thanks,

Comment on KDE 4.8.0 arrives by Willy Sudiarto Raharjo

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:31:56 +0000

put this in /etc/slackpkg/blacklist
[0-9]+alien

Comment on KDE 4.8.0 arrives by schultzter

schultzter — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:28:56 +0000

Thanks alien for all this work! This is awesome.

Quick question, I’m new to this, but to properly configure my slackpkg blacklist file should put in the -current packages that are removed as part of the upgrade to KDE 4.8.0?

I.e.:
polkit-kde-1
kdeaccessibility
kdebase
kdebase-runtime
kdebase-workspace
kdebindings
kdeedu
kdegraphics
kdeutils
konq-plugins

Thanks,

Comment on LibreOffice 3.4.5 released, OpenJDK package update. by MasterShuffler

MasterShuffler — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:01:56 +0000

Eric, to cut a long story short, I have been able to correct many minor annoyances with the Slackbuild (for instance, I did not realize it had to be run as root, or that it dumped all files into /tmp by default).
The problem right now is that the script fails randomly while doing its “tar -xf” operations.
Since I launched it in debugging mode, I can see it fail – with the same error message – but on different files each time.
Have you ever had this problem before?

Comment on LibreOffice 3.4.5 released, OpenJDK package update. by MasterShuffler

MasterShuffler — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:29:46 +0000

Eric, yes, it’s right after the “NOTE:” line, followed by the “-+-+-+-+”.

I never see the “libreoffice” line that you mention. I did guess that the script was checking something, but this is my personal machine, and HTTP should not be a problem…

Comment on LibreOffice 3.4.5 released, OpenJDK package update. by alienbob

alienbob — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:24:21 +0000

You mean this output?

** Please examine the following output (enclosed in ‘-+-+-+’ lines).
** If you see any filenames there, it means that these are still missing.
** Since they will not be downloaded when LibreOffice starts compiling,
** you may run into problems later.
** NOTE: this indicates that this SlackBuild needs to be updated.
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
++
|| libreoffice-3.4.5
++
Extracting source archive(s) for libreoffice…
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Copying all external archives into src directory for libreoffice…
Building …

Can you indicate where your script stalls? Right after “NOTE: this indicates that this SlackBuild needs to be updated.” the script sets up a HTTP connection to check the source tarball requirements, perhaps that is what’s causing your issue.

Eric

Comment on LibreOffice 3.4.5 released, OpenJDK package update. by MasterShuffler

MasterShuffler — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:59:48 +0000

Eric, a quick question : I am running Slackware 13.0 (x86-64) and I have tried running your slack build script on my machine… (the short version is: I need something to open and save M$ files).
Everything seems to be running great, then the script freezes on the message where it is supposed to indicate missing files… Any ideas?

I badly need LibreOffice, so any help would be greatly appreciated… Thanks!

I am going to pipe the ”bash -x” script output itself into tee, and see what I can find, but any and all help would be greatly appreciated!

Comment on KDE 4.8.0 arrives by Xfce 4.8

Xfce 4.8 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:41:09 +0000

[...] You can have a look on AlienBOB's work on KDE 4.8.0 for more information http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/kde-4-8-0-arrives/ [...]

Comment on KDE 4.8.0 arrives by otho

otho — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:19:32 +0000

Ah, sorry. I now see that mentioned in the README. My question (and quote) was referencing the blog post.