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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 "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: 23

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