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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 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 23:24:37 GMT September 28, 2016
a/glibc-zoneinfo-2016g-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. This package provides the latest timezone updates. l/mpfr-3.1.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.

Archive for the tag "socks"

Securely browsing the net – using SOCKS

If you are using a public/open wireless access point (like, in an Internet Cafe), or if you live in a country where people are not all that happy or concerned about it’s citizens’ freedom, you sometimes find yourself in the position that you want to hide your browsing behaviour from others. I will describe a […]

Posted: 10 April, 2010 in Software.
Tags: browsing, encryption, socks, tunnel
Comments: 11