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Alien's Slackware packages

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:24:58 GMT
flashplayer-plugin: updated to 11.1. Its full version is 11.1.102.55 which you can check on http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ […]
Sat, 4 Feb 2012 21:44:54 GMT
libtorrent-rasterbar: updated to 0.15.9. qbittorrent: updated to 2.9.3 (depends on libtorrent-rasterbar). […]
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) […]

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 "windows"

… I am going to show you how to create a Slackware USB installer when all you have is a Windows computer. As a Linux user, this would not cause you any problems since there is a shell script that does the work for you – all you need is the Slackware DVD and a [...]

Posted: 9 December, 2009 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: boot, dd, syslinux, usb, windows
Comments: 28

Running X Window on MS Windows

I am less than mobile at the moment. Recovery from surgery takes longer than I expected (one week has passed and I still can wear normal trousers only for short periods of time). It takes me some effort to go up two stairs and work at my Slackware desktop system, so that left me less [...]

Posted: 12 September, 2008 in Slackware.
Tags: network, windows, xdmcp
Comments: 8

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