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Day: November 27, 2015

(Hopefully) final recompilations for KDE 5_15.11

November 27, 2015 / / 36 Comments

plasma5_startup There was still some work to do about my Plasma 5 package repository. The recent updates in slackware-current broke several packages that were still linking to older (and no longer present) libraries which were part of the icu4c and udev packages.

So finally I had the time to cure this situation. I rebuilt kdelibs, kde-workspace and all the telepathy dependencies, updated all the KDE Telepathy packages, and also compiled a git snapshot for the kio-mtp package after some people complained about the Unicode character in its ‘slack-desc’ file which caused breakage in pkgtools.

Hopefully, everything works again this time. Even Telepathy. Tell me your experiences with Amarok and the Plasmashell which were crashing for some people. And especially Plasmashell crashing leaves you with no desktop at all.

Have fun! Eric

Updated multilib packages for -current

November 27, 2015 / / 6 Comments

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The recent update of packages in slackware-current demanded a similar update in the set of “compat32” packages for those who are running a 64bit Slackware multilib computer.
On request, I have added two new packages: libaio-compat32 and lzo-compat32. Both packages cover a missing dependency, one for mariadb and the other for cairo. The massconvert32.sh script will now also create or update these two new packages.

Remember, if you want to check (without actually creating anything) if the massconvert32.sh script will update any of your compat32 packages or add new ones, just run the script as follows in the directory where you already have your “a-compat32”, “ap-compat32”, …, “xap-compat32” subdirectories (this example uses a local mirror of 32-bit Slackware-current):

# massconvert32.sh -n -q -i /local/path/to/mirror/of/slackware-current/slackware/

The output could be something like this:

libaio: new package will be converted
lzo: new package will be converted

Official download locations:

Have fun! Eric

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