Another big update to slackware-current today.
The ChangeLog.txt entry of “Thu Oct 29 20:12:14 UTC 2015” counts 448lines, and a little less than half of that number consists of updates to packages; the rest is rebuilds. A massive package recompilation occured because several core libraries got updated and Pat is quite conscientious in getting all the library dependency issues resolved properly.
Items of interest: this batch contains several security updates (gvfs, jasper, curl, ntp, php, mozilla-firefox).
The kernel got updated (from 4.1.6 to 4.1.12)! Perl was refreshed too (to 5.22.0 coming from 5.18.1). Scons got added. And ConsoleKit2 got added too folks! This replaces the unmaintained ConsoleKit.
The GTK/GLib subsystem got overhauled thanks to the hard work of Robby. And then there’s Mesa which is now at 11.0.4 accompanied by X.Org 1.17.3 and libdrm 2.4.65.
In the KDE department, several components were updated to their most recent releases: KDEvelop is now at version 4.7.2, Calligra went up to 2.9.8. The various Long Term Support (LTS) packages are now at their final versions: kdelibs to 4.14.13, kdepim* to 4.14.10 and kde-workspace to 4.11.22. No further updates for KDE 4 are expected.
All in all a potentially disruptive update. I suggest that you upgrade with care, especially if you are running my Plasma 5 packages. I have not yet had the time to test whether recompilations are required, and I am pressed for time (delivering training courses to a new Helpdesk team this week and the next) so it may take several more days before I can come up with rebuilt Plasma packages.
If you want to dive right in and report the Plasma 5 packages that no longer work for you, I’d be grateful.
Have fun! Eric
thank you and to all
Thanks for the heads-up Eric. I’ll think I’ll wait too, since I right now I have to deliver lots of work.
Hi
Just installed all the updates and using the Plasma 5. Things seem to be working fine out of the box.
Thanks for all the work Eric!
Many thanks to you, rworkman, Mr. Volkerding and the others for all your hard work! It is sincerely appreciated!
PS: All the changes have been installed and so far, so good.
🙂
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Thanks for the responses. It looks like there are no immediate requirements for Plasma 5 recompilations then?
The next Plasma 5 update will be the usual monthly one then… somewhere after November 14th when Frameworks, Plasma and Applications all have seen their new releases.
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kontact didn’t start for me. libslas2.so.2 not found. Inserted a symbolic link to libsasl2.so.3 for now.
Mike
kmail is broken, need old cyrus-sasl package (libslas2.so.2).
but work with link
ln -s libsasl2.so.3.0.0 libsasl2.so.2
other think:
i have compiled qt-5.1, and all work here 😉
oops 😉
other thing:
i have compiled qt-5.1, and all work here
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Thanks Eric and the team. Hail ConsoleKit2!
upgraded with no problems so far.
I’ll test this first on a VM to check that nothing breaks. Last time with a similar update, something broke the package libsigsegv didn’t upgrade, but was uninstalled, and scripts that requires it like cat | grep and similar were unable to work…
One question Eric, last time you told me that a full installation is required in order to some of your builds work properly, how can I know if something is not installed ( ’cause when I installed, I have selected the full installation option) besides the use of using:
#slackpkg search slackware64 | grep uninstalled
Is there a tool or a another command that can I use to check this?
Thanks !
package libkexiv2-15.08.2-x86_64-1alien.txz, is broken
need recompil with the new slack-current exiv2 package
p431i7o : “slackpkg install-new”, I believe this can help
p431i7o : slackpkg check-updates
perl
/usr/bin/pod2html
Segmentation fault
Gwenview crash after update:
Segmentation fault
Unable to start Dr. Konqi
usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libssh2.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
gengisdave , libssh2.so.1 was added to the aaa_elflibs package. You probably have that package blacklisted in slackpkg.
See also http://www.slackware.com/~mozes/docs/aaa_elflibs.txt
mara – that command does not segfault here. In fact, it sits waiting there, because it needs an inputfile.
mara, can you verify that you have installed the latest packages for slackware-current for:
aaa_elflibs
db48
mariadb
openssl / openssl-solibs
In particular, since this is slackware-current, you probably need to upgrade the aaa_elflibs package.
alienbob, this occurs when assembling rrdtool.
build with the -i option
error:
GEN rrdbuild.html
/bin/sh: line 1: 11365 ?????? ??????????????? /usr/bin/pod2html –infile=rrdbuild.pod –outfile=rrdbuild.html –noindex –htmlroot=. –podpath=. –title=rrdbuild
Makefile:693: ?????? ?????????? ??????? ??? ???? «rrdbuild.html»
make[1]: *** [rrdbuild.html] ?????? 139
mara, (1) I don’t do anything with rrdtool, and (2) I can not read your output.
Compiled gwenview, now work fine.
Hi!
If I may, I’d like to suggest for the inner ring to decide on inclusion of pciutils-3.4.0 as 3.2.0 does not recognize new devices (had issue on Acer E4-572G laptop with non recognized WiFi chip) and add to the /n new Intel firmwares from http://www.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/CS-034398.htm
the error is eliminated by removing perl-5.18.1 and all modules
i started to notice some sluggishness in my machine and upgraded to the newest -current and things are snappy again.
by the way, the latest upgrades to SCIM that came with this upgrade are really great for Chinese character input.
Regnad Kcin, nice! I have not tried SCIM in a while, good to hear that it still improves.
LibreOffice 5 won’t start any more because libssh2.so.1 has been removed. I suppose a symbolic link can trivially fix that.
Umberto, you missed this update:
This same remark can be found higher up in the page, see my Post dated: November 2, 2015 at 16:04
gwenview not working! 🙁
??????????? – someone else already mentioned higher up in this page that gwenview has to be recompiled to make it work again.
Perl is crashed. One solution – back to the previous version. – 5.18.
webster, you probably have installed some self-compiled perl modules. Slackware’s perl no longer uses a versioned installation directory. Earlier Slackware releases installed perl stuff in “/usr/lib/perl5//” but since 2011 everything is installed to “/usr/lib/perl5/”.
If you have perl modules compiled for a previous perl, those modules are mixing in with the new perl and cause crashes. Try removing or at least recompiling those custom perl modules.
No, when I have your current perl I cannot compile anything.
For example SBOtools:
[…]
Checking if your kit is complete…
Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:
Changes
Please inform the author.
Generating a Unix-style Makefile
Writing Makefile for SBO::Lib
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
cp lib/SBO/Lib.pm blib/lib/SBO/Lib.pm
cp lib/Sort/Versions.pm blib/lib/Sort/Versions.pm
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 “/usr/bin/perl5.22.0” “-MExtUtils::Command::MM” “-MTest::Harness” “-e” “undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, ‘blib/lib’, ‘blib/arch’)” t/*.t
t/SBO-Lib.t …
Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
Failed 1/1 subtests
t/versions.t .. ok
The same, when I try to compile Spamassassin and etc.
Hi, from the latest current update, I’ve installed KDevelop, but now I’ve this error when try to launch :
kdevelop: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libkdevplatformutil.so.8: undefined symbol: _ZNK19KIdentityProxyModel10headerDataEiN2Qt11OrientationEi
any suggestion?
I also had a segfault with pod2html. Got it to work by renaming (ie. removing) the plugin directory /usr/local/lib64/perl5/
I also had pod2html segfaulting on me. Got it to work by renaming the directory /usr/local/lib64/perl5