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Alien's Slackware packages

Sat, 16 Jun 2018 23:30:09 GMT
qt5: updated to 5.9.6 for slackware-current.
Sun, 10 Jun 2018 12:32:58 GMT
NetworkManager-openconnect: rebuilt for Slackware-current. Depends on openconnect. NetworkManager-openvpn: rebuilt for Slackware-current. Depends on openconnect.

Alien's unofficial KDE Slackware packages

Sat, 16 Jun 2018 21:09:31 GMT
Here is KDE 5_18.06 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.47.0, Plasma 5.12.5 and Applications 18.04.2. All this on top of Qt 5.9.6. The ktown updates are targeting Slackware -current only. Updates of the KDE 5 package sets for Slackware 14.2 have come to an end. Upgrading from the previous 5_18.05 is straight-forward. Read […]
Sat, 2 Jun 2018 19:20:33 GMT
current/deps/dvdauthor: Rebuilt against the new imagemagick.

Alien's multilib packages

Sun, 17 Jun 2018 10:12:13 GMT
current/glibc-2.27_multilib-x86_64-4alien.txz: Rebuilt. When installing the package, remove old versions of the glibc shared libraries. In addition to eliminating residue on the system from old package versions, this change will make it possible in the future to revert to older glibc packages using upgradepkg. Don't restart init in the install script, let rc.6 handle it. current/glibc-i18n-2.27_multilib-x86_64-4alien.txz: […]
Thu, 10 May 2018 11:15:48 GMT
current/compat32-tools-3.7-noarch-19alien.tgz: In massconvert32.sh, added a/openssl10-solibs. current/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.

Slackware64-current

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 06:19:23 GMT June 18, 2018
a/aaa_elflibs-15.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. Upgraded to libelf-0.171.so, added libgdbm.so.6.0.0. a/etc-15.0-x86_64-6.txz: Rebuilt. Add $(uname -m) information to /etc/issue.new. Don't include /tmp directories - these are handled by aaa_base. a/kernel-generic-4.14.50-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-huge-4.14.50-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-modules-4.14.50-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. ap/man-db-2.8.3-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt. Recompiled against gdbm-1.15. ap/zsh-5.5.1-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt. Recompiled against gdbm-1.15. d/clisp-2.49_20180423_d1310adc5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. Compiled against gdbm-1.15. d/kernel-headers-4.14.50-x86-1.txz: Upgraded. d/perl-5.26.2-x86_64-5.txz: Rebuilt. Recompiled against gdbm-1.15. d/python-2.7.15-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt. […]

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SlackBuilds.org changes for Mon, 18 Jun 2018 08:10:43 GMT
academic/FCSalyzer: Updated for version 0.9.15_alpha. academic/HMMER: Updated for version 3.2.1. academic/ImageJ: Updated for version 1.52. academic/PhyML: Updated for version 3.3.20180214. academic/aliview: Updated for version 1.23. academic/bpp-core: Updated for version 2.4.0. academic/bpp-phyl-omics: Updated for version 2.4.0. academic/bpp-phyl: Updated for version 2.4.0. academic/bpp-popgen: Updated for version 2.4.0. academic/bpp-seq-omics: Updated for version 2.4.0. academic/bpp-seq: Updated for version 2.4.0. […]

Archive for the tag "silverlight"

I decided to do an update of my “pipelight” package. I had not looked at it for a long time, basically because I do not use it anymore, but after I upgraded my “wine” package someone asked if I could please write up what could be done for wine-pipelight. As you know, pipelight is a […]

Posted: 29 July, 2016 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: pipelight, silverlight, wine
Comments: 11

Pipelight: using Silverlight in Linux browsers

That is the exact title of an article which appeared on fds-team.de last august. You may have read my earlier rant about dutch schools migrating (or forced to migrate) to a Microsoft SilverLight based learning management software called Magister. A disastrous move induced by an arrogant company, which of course leaves Linux desktop users out […]

Posted: 9 November, 2013 in Rant, Slackware, Software.
Tags: drm, netflix, silverlight
Comments: 131

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