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Alien's Slackware packages

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 […]
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/ […]

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 Added a new option '-n' or '--dry-run' to the massconvert32.sh script which will show missing/outdated packages without actually converting them.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 the tag "kde48"

KDE 4.8.4 (last in the 4.8 series)

With a few days’ delay due to patches which were contributed at the last moment and resulting build failures (…), the KDE team announced the final increment in the 4.8 series: KDE Software Compilation 4.8.4 . I have packages for you and am announcing those for all users of Slackware-current. The upgrade is trivial if [...]

Posted: 8 June, 2012 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: kde, kde48
Comments: 34

KDE 4.8.3 packages

The KDE team officially released the sources for KDE Software Compilation 4.8.3 today. I grabbed the tarballs from the packagers site a few days earlier, so that I could again have a full set of Slackware packages for you. The upgrade will be trivial. Slackware-current was enhanced very recently with KDE 4.8.2 and all the [...]

Posted: 4 May, 2012 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: kde, kde48
Comments: 34

KDE 4.8.2 – updated in Slackware soon (hopefully)!

The KDE team released the next update in the KDE 4.8 cycle today. As expected it is mostly on target again. The sources were made available to packagers some days earlier and that enabled me to update my scripts and start building on time. I am running KDE 4.8.2 myself and so far, have not [...]

Posted: 4 April, 2012 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: kde, kde48
Comments: 44

KDE 4.8.1 – the best DE you can get

Today saw the announcement of a new chapter in the KDE 4.8 series. I was already very pleased with the point release 4.8.0 – it is amazing how the developers managed to keep their desktop environment stable when transitioning from 4.7 to 4.8. And the first maintenance release 4.8.1 brings us bug fixes and more. [...]

Posted: 7 March, 2012 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: kde, kde48
Comments: 48

KDE 4.8.0 arrives

The release schedule could have told you in advance – here we have the first installment in the KDE 4.8 series! The Slackware KDE 4.8.0 packages are ready for your enjoyment.. A good primer on the how and why of the modularization of KDE, resulting in an abundance of smaller packages compared to the big [...]

Posted: 25 January, 2012 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: kde, kde48, qt
Comments: 97