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Alien's Slackware packages

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 […]
Wed, 15 May 2013 10:40:07 GMT
flashplayer-plugin: updated to 11.2.202.285. This release fixes critical vulnerabilities. For more details, check here: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb13-14.html Verify that you are running the correct version on: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ […]
Sat, 11 May 2013 21:53:10 GMT
sbbdep: updated to 0.2.0. […]

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

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 […]
Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:11:02 GMT
current/gcc-4.8.0_multilib-x86_64-3alien.txz: Rebuilt. Patched to fix a bug that was breaking WINE with -O2 on x86_64, and probably affected other programs as well. current/gcc-g++-4.8.0_multilib-x86_64-3alien.txz: Rebuilt. current/gcc-gfortran-4.8.0_multilib-x86_64-3alien.txz: Rebuilt. current/gcc-gnat-4.8.0_multilib-x86_64-3alien.txz: Rebuilt. current/gcc- […]

Archive for the tag "jre"

OpenJDK 7 update 3 available for Slackware 13.37

The JDK and JRE packages in Slackware are severely outdated. In case you are not familiar with them, “JDK” is the Java Development Kit and “JRE” is the Java Runtime Engine. As stated in a previous post on this blog, Slackware (and with it all the other distros) is no longer allowed to distribute Java [...]

Posted: 26 February, 2012 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: java, jdk, jre
Comments: 29

OpenJDK replacing Oracle’s binaries

I already wrote about it in an earlier post, that I was working on packages for OpenJDK. OpenJDK is an open-source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition. In 2007, Sun delivered to its earlier promise to make Java open source and released the bulk of its code under a GPL license. Since then, high-profile [...]

Posted: 7 January, 2012 in Slackware, Uncategorized.
Tags: java, jdk, jre
Comments: 47