Alien Pastures » upgrade http://alien.slackbook.org/blog My thoughts on Slackware, life and everything Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:27:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Here you go – KDE 4.5.2 for Slackware http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/here-you-go-kde-4-5-2-for-slackware/ http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/here-you-go-kde-4-5-2-for-slackware/#comments Sat, 09 Oct 2010 12:14:53 +0000 alienbob http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/?p=507 KDE 4.5.2

You probably were aware that the KDE team had released version 4.5.2 of their software compilation a little while ago. I had other things to do at that time, so you did not see a package set for Slackware until now.

Yesterday I talked to Pat Volkerding to see what his short-term planning looked like,  and based on the conversation I decided to go ahead and build a set of packages for slackwarre-current (32-bit and 64-bit of course). Rest assured that Pat is working on something equally entertaining as building KDE packages ;-)

Here they are, uploaded to my ‘ktown’ repository.

See the README file for installation or upgrade instructions. They are no different from any prior release. There is not even a single additional dependency to install this time, thanks to the fact that Slackware -current already contains KDE SC 4.5.1.

Have fun!

Eric

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I use a special plugin, “Maintenance Mode” which shows a maintenance notice during the upgrade so that I could work without feeling the pressure.

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No idea if you can spot the difference, but the admin backend sure changed!

Eric

]]> http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/blog-maintenance/feed/ 3 My dokuwiki got an update http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/my-dokuwiki-got-an-update/ http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/my-dokuwiki-got-an-update/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:47:05 +0000 alienbob http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/?p=46 Today, I updated the Dokuwiki software that I use for my Wiki to the latest version, and installed a new version of the Monobook template as well. Also, no thanks to the spambots that were messing up the Wiki’s discussion pages, I installed a “captcha” plugin. You are now required to enter a few “hard to read characters” before you are allowed to edit any page. If the characters are indeed hard to read, you can playback an audio version (a voice reads the characters out loud one by one).

I believe that the upgrade worked well, but if any of you find something weird on the pages that you think should not be there, please drop me an email or reply to this post, and I will fix it.

Eric

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