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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 Tue, 27 Sep 2016 19:16:56 GMT September 27, 2016
ap/hplip-3.16.9-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. Reenabled parallel port support. Thanks to Jas for the bug report. n/bind-9.10.4_P3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a denial-of-service vulnerability. Testing by ISC has uncovered a critical error condition which can occur when a nameserver is constructing a response. A defect in the rendering of messages into packets can cause named to exit with […]

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: 19

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