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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

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 05:47:22 GMT June 19, 2018
a/btrfs-progs-v4.17-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/lvm2-2.02.179-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. l/imagemagick-6.9.10_2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. n/NetworkManager-1.10.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. x/vulkan-sdk-1.1.73.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.

SBo

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 "vps"

Running Slackware 14.1 in an OpenVZ VPS

Last year I rented a OpenVZ based Virtual Private Server (VPS) for a discount price. I needed a new host to experiment with. My other Internet machine, the taper server (a QEMU virtual machine donated to me by a Slackware fan) is not meant for tinkering. It is running the Slackware Documentation Project, and I like […]

Posted: 20 May, 2015 in Me, Slackware, Software.
Tags: openvz, vps
Comments: 25

My new mirror

I have a new mirror server. I have configured a VPS (a virtually hosted server using QEMU) which was donated to me by a Slackware supporter who wishes to remain anonymous. The physical server is on a gigabit Internet connection, so I guess I can offer a speedy mirror service! In fact, the mirrors are […]

Posted: 3 September, 2010 in Me, Slackware, Software.
Tags: mirror, qemu, vps
Comments: 14