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Alien's Slackware packages

Fri, 21 Jul 2017 19:04:50 GMT
icedtea-web: Updated to 1.7. Note: this package needs either openjdk or openjre, built using icedtea. openjdk: updated to 8u141_b15 also for Slackware 13.37 and 14.0.
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:40:32 GMT
mkvtoolnix: updated to 13.0.0 for Slackware 14.2 and -current. Depends on libxkbcommon, qt5 and qt5-webkit packages. On Slackware 14.2 you will have to add libinput and libwacom packages as well.

Alien's unofficial KDE Slackware packages

Sun, 23 Jul 2017 08:37:59 GMT
current/latest: the following packages that are part of KDE 5_17.07, both 33bit and 64bit, have been recompiled to compensate for recent incompatible library updates in slackware-current: kde4:libkexiv2_4,kfilemetadata frameworks:kfilemetadata5 applications:libkexiv2,gwenview,kde-runtime,okular applications-extra:digikam,krita
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 13:22:49 GMT
Here is KDE 5_17.07 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.36.0, Plasma 5.10.3 and Applications 17.04.3. All this on top of Qt 5.9.0 for Slackware-current and Qt 5.7.1 for Slackware 14.2. KDE-5_17.07 is meant to be installed on top of Slackware 14.2 or -current. Upgrading from the previous 5_17.06 is straight-forward. Please read the […]

Alien's multilib packages

Thu, 20 Jul 2017 14:52:23 GMT
current/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.
Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:06:45 GMT
current/compat32-tools-3.7-noarch-13alien.tgz: In massconvert32.sh, added l/libwebp since many programs now link against its library. current/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.

Slackware64-current

slackware64 current changes for Fri, 21 Jul 2017 20:09:49 GMT July 21, 2017
l/seamonkey-solibs-2.48-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. xap/seamonkey-2.48-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see: http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.48 (* Security fix *)

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