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Alien's Slackware packages

Mon, 19 Sep 2016 07:11:18 GMT
libreoffice: updated to 5.2.1 for Slackware 14.2 (the packages for slackware-current are already at 5.2.1).
Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:48:21 GMT
chromium-pepperflash-plugin: updated to 23.0.0.162. Security fix. flashplayer-plugin: updated to 11.2.202.635. Security fix. See https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-29.html

Alien's unofficial KDE Slackware packages

Tue, 6 Sep 2016 11:48:44 GMT
deps/qt5: applied a patch to fix a bug in qtwebkit (visible in kmail) which is triggered because of having been compiled against glibc-2.24.
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 11:35:41 GMT
Here is KDE 5_16.08 for Slackware 14.2 and -current, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.25.0, Plasma 5.7.4 and Applications 16.08.0 on top of Qt 5.7.0. Upgrade from the previous KDE 5_16.07 should be smooth. Please read the accompanying README file for detailed installation and upgrade instructions! Also note that the 'ktown' repository has a new […]

Alien's multilib packages

Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:28:22 GMT
current/glibc-2.24_multilib-x86_64-2alien.txz:: Rebuilt. If libm.so is a linker script, don't clobber it with a symlink. current/glibc-i18n-2.24_multilib-x86_64-2alien.txz: Rebuilt. current/glibc-profile-2.24_multilib-x86_64-2alien.txz: Rebuilt. current/glibc-solibs-2.24_multilib-x86_64-2alien.txz: Rebuilt. current/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 11:13:18 GMT
14.2/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.

Slackware64-current

slackware64 current changes for Fri, 23 Sep 2016 23:30:53 GMT September 23, 2016
n/php-5.6.26-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes bugs and security issues. For more information, see: https://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.6.26 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7416 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7412 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7414 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7417 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7411 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7413 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7418 (* Security fix *)

Archive for the tag "ebook"

New calibre packages – finally

It’s been nearly ten months since my last package for Calibre. What’s Calibre again I hear you ask? It is the highly popular E-book library management program with support for any E-Reader you can think of. I doubt that anyone who tried Calibre will ever switch back to one of the proprietary library management programs […]

Posted: 28 May, 2015 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: calibre, ebook, qt5
Comments: 37

Calibre reaches 1.0 after nearly 7 years of development

I am fully occupied this week and the next with training my new helpdesk team, so it took me a bit by surprise when Willy Sudiarto Raharjo tweeted that there was a version 1.0 of Calibre since this morning. Kovid Goyal, developer of Calibre, published the news in a blog post. It’s nearly seven years […]

Posted: 23 August, 2013 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: calibre, ebook, epub
Comments: 10

Packages for LibreOffice 3.6.5, calibre and steamclient, and lots of movement on the horizon

Yes, I finally got rid of the flu – but it took a week. I lost some weight (and I am not overweight so I am looking starved now), I still have a bad cough and my lower back muscles are strained and painful because of the continuous coughing. Otherwise I am fine. I had […]

Posted: 2 February, 2013 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: calibre, ebook, epub, libreoffice, steam, vlc
Comments: 20

Digitizing my paperback books

Part one: what do I want? I hinted at this topic in a previous post. I have a big collection of (mostly) paperback Science Fiction books – some hardcover books too. I used to read a lot more in the pre-Internet days, nowadays it’s just during my holidays that I get enough time to read […]

Posted: 4 October, 2011 in Hardware, Me, Software.
Tags: ebook, ocr, scanning
Comments: 12

E-book management on Slackware

Managing your e-book collection In an earlier post, I hinted about a Slackware package I was trying to create for Calibre. The reason being that I bought my wife an e-reader: a Sony PRS650 with a touch screen using infrared instead of a touch-sensitive layer and pearl e-ink technology. Both those features make for an […]

Posted: 19 June, 2011 in Hardware, Slackware, Software.
Tags: ebook, epub, ereader, mobi
Comments: 23