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Alien's Slackware packages

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 23:13:23 GMT
calibre: updated to 0.8.38 (needs icu4c and podofo as dependencies) […]
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:05:14 GMT
calibre: updated to 0.8.37 (needs icu4c and podofo as dependencies) […]
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:46:19 GMT
calibre: updated to 0.8.36 (needs icu4c and podofo as dependencies) […]
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:45:43 GMT
libreoffice: updated to 3.4.5. Added Swedish dictionary (requested by eXpander). Fixed the name of the Polish dictionary so that it gets really included. Moved a lot of language-specific files to their language packs. Thanks to Andrzej Szelachow for reporting about the dictionary and language files. […]

Alien's unofficial KDE Slackware packages

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 09:44:00 GMT
4.8.0/deps/qt: Applied patch to provide a fix for vulnerability CVE-2011-3922 (stack-based buffer overflow). Applied a patch which tries to work around a change in path name queries, which broke system sounds in KDE (among others). […]
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:36:33 GMT
4.8.0/kde/kde-workspace: make KDM look first in Slackware's standard xsessions directory /usr/share/xsessions ; also remove the xfce*.desktop xsession files which are shipped with KDM (our XFCE package provides this already). Requested by Robby Workman. […]

Alien's multilib packages

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:29:22 GMT
current/gcc-4.6.2_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/gcc-g++-4.6.2_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/gcc-gfortran-4.6.2_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/gcc-gnat-4.6.2_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/gcc-go-4.6.2_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Added. current/gcc-java-4.6.2_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. c […]
Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:20:31 GMT
13.37/glibc-zoneinfo-2011i_2011n_multilib-noarch-2alien.txz: Upgraded. 13.1/glibc-zoneinfo-2011i_2011n_multilib-noarch-2alien.txz: Upgraded. 13.0/glibc-zoneinfo-2011i_2011n_multilib-noarch-2alien.txz: Upgraded. Note that all these packages are copies of the package in -current. I talked to Pat and he had done exactly the same for the originals. There are no […]

Archive for the tag "virtualbox"

Compiling a new kernel module for VirtualBox

I had installed VirtualBox a while ago on my laptop running my Slackware64 test environment, so I could experiment with the program a bit. Then I forgot all about it. Today, I upgraded to the latest set of slackware64-current packages, including the new 2.6.32.7 kernel and when I rebooted to that new kernel, I saw [...]

Posted: 31 January, 2010 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: kernel, vbox, virtualbox
Comments: 8

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