The 12.1 SlackBuild scripts don't have execute permissions anymore. I don't
think this was intentional, so I thought I'd mention it.
--phil
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Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it
thought some users might find the
feature useful.
--phil
Robby Workman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phillip Warner wrote:
I think there should be something in the slackBuilds that says what
slackware version the script was designed for. I suggest specifying the
slackware version in the .info
What was wrong with the man page for tuxpuck?
--phil
--- On Tue, 6/10/08, Robby Workman lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; wrote:
From: Robby Workman lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt;
Subject: [Slackbuilds-users] Updates - 20080610
To: slackbuilds-users@slackbuilds.org
Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 12:41 PM
Tue Jun
Actually, after I thought about this for a second the solution is simple. The
openbox.desktop file that is in question is actually a part of the kdebase
package. It doesn't get used until there is a xinitrc file for openbox
available. The openbox slackBuild has the xinitrc's for openbox
, 2008, 11:39 AM
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:38 AM, Phillip Warner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, after I thought about this for a second the
solution is simple.
The openbox.desktop file that is in question is
actually a part of the
kdebase package. It doesn't get used until
, David? Also, do you want me to continue a copy of this
thread in the slackbuilds-devel mailing list as it was before?
--phil
--- On Sun, 7/6/08, LukenShiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: LukenShiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: DevIL
To: slackbuilds-users@slackbuilds.org
Cc: Phillip Warner
Date: Saturday, July 5, 2008, 8:07 PM
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Phillip Warner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, the stock openbox.desktop file from the kdebase
package should execute openbox-session. However, the
problem is more than that. The new kdm doesn't seem to
make use
I sent an email to the listed maintainer (Martin Lefebvre) for CurseTheWeather
concerning some recent runtime errors I had, but the email address ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]) no longer seems valid. Perhaps the server is down for now. Is
this SlackBuild still being maintained?
Also, I'm wondering if
The homepage and download location for abcde seems invalid now.
--phil
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I emailed the author, Dan, about this and he said that he doesn't plan on doing
any fixes himself (time constraints), but that he would be glad to commit any
good patches.
I appreciate you doing this, Martin. Could you send me the patch when it is
ready? Thank you.
--phil
--- On Tue,
The homepage listed on the xclip SlackBuild appears to be down.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xclip looks like the place to go for now.
--phil
--- On Wed, 9/24/08, Eric Hameleers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Eric Hameleers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Slackbuilds-users] pygame
In the TiMidity++ SlackBuild:
#chown -R root:root .
;)
--phil
--- On Wed, 10/29/08, Michiel van Wessem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Michiel van Wessem [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Slackbuilds-users] Updates - 20081029
To: SlackBuilds.org Users List slackbuilds-users@slackbuilds.org
Date:
One thing I usually do after downloading a new version of a SlackBuild is diff
it against the previous version. This makes me more informed about what
specific changes there are and if they affect me. This is particularly
important for me when I have modified a SlackBuild. Will my custom
] dmenu location changed, SlackBuild needs
update
To: slackbuilds-users@slackbuilds.org
Date: Friday, October 31, 2008, 8:27 AM
On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:48:27 -0700 (PDT)
Phillip Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dmenu is now at
http://www.suckless.org/programs/dmenu.html
This information
As of Slackware 12.2 I am no longer interested in maintaining the DevIL
SlackBuild. Is anyone interested in taking it over?
As a side note, it looks like DevIL development finally picked back up. 1.7.3
is out, so hopefully no nasty patches should be necessary this time around.
--phil
All my SlackBuilds look good to go:
cmatrix
diakonos
frostwire
herrie
smc
smc_music
solfege
xrdp
whaw
CEGUI
CurseTheWeather
FreeImage
dmenu (will maintain 12.2 and on)
As I mentioned eariler, DevIL is up for grabs if there are any takers.
Also, the following SlackBuilds work for me.
guarddog
I thought it would be good to start a new thread on this issue.
What is the verdict for SlackBuilds that have corresponding packages in
/testing (boost, qt4, etc)? As has been already pointed out, there are
significant differences with some of them, and this can cause other SlackBuilds
that
While pmount's SlackBuild does not fail, the program no longer works correctly:
Error: device /dev/sda1 is not removable
It appears to be an issue with the newer kernel. By simply using one of my
older kernels in Slackware 12.2 pmount works fine. I have tested this on a
fresh Slackware
10:55:47 -0800 (PST)
Phillip Warner pc_war...@yahoo.com wrote:
While pmount's SlackBuild does not fail, the
program no longer works
correctly: Error: device /dev/sda1 is not removable
It appears to be an issue with the newer kernel. By
simply using one
of my older kernels
)
Phillip Warner pc_war...@yahoo.com wrote:
I don't think this is something that can be fixed
with a small
patch. From what I gather, it'd take a major
rewrite of pmount or a
custom kernel setup (I haven't looked through the
source to confirm
this). The SlackBuild maintainer, Guillermo
--- On Sun, 1/4/09, Robby Workman rwork...@slackbuilds.org wrote:
Even better:
TMP=$HOME/tmp/SBo ; export TMP
TAG=_whatever ; export TAG
./prgnam.SlackBuild
./someotherthing.SlackBuild
./somethingelse.SlackBuild
...
-RW
Unfortunately, if you are going to really test the scripts as a
In the gens SlackBuild there is no case for i686 arch and the
mkdir $TMP $PKG
line needs to be
mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
Without the latter the script will actually fail if $TMP (/tmp/SBo) already
exists.
--phil
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--- On Wed, 1/21/09, Robby Workman rwork...@slackbuilds.org wrote:
development/openproj: Added - OpenProj is intended to be an
open-source
replacement for Microsoft Project. Thanks to Chris
Abela. --rworkman
gpg sig and all other individual files (such as the README) missing
The one feature sbopkg lacks that SlackBuilds.org has is the ability to search
for packages based on search tags.
Ideally, the search tags would be in the .info files. I don't even remember
what tags I used for all of my submissions, so I would not mind seeing them.
Perhaps a for loop and
Rich,
It might be a good idea to compile some of your software to use static
libraries in the future. Maybe you can do that gradually over time.
Also, something like GoboLinux (www.gobolinux.org/) may be of interest to you.
--phillip
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--- On Sun, 2/1/09, Phillip Warner pc_war...@yahoo.com wrote:
Also, something like GoboLinux (www.gobolinux.org/) may be
of interest to you.
or this project to 'Convert Slackware packages into relocatable AppDirs'
listed at LQ at
http://tinyurl.com/b3lbf7
--phillip
--- On Tue, 2/10/09, Chess Griffin ch...@chessgriffin.com wrote:
So, the question is: how many people feel strongly about
keeping the
ability to run sbopkg as a non-root user? Could folks
adapt to using
sbopkg only as root?
ROOT-only sounds fine to me. The main use of a non-root user for
--- On Sun, 2/15/09, Marco Pessotto melmo...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Marco Pessotto melmo...@gmail.com
Subject: [Slackbuilds-users] rxvt-unicode: TERMINFO entry installed in /
To: slackbuilds-users@slackbuilds.org
Date: Sunday, February 15, 2009, 4:16 AM
Hi all.
The rxvt-unicode
--- On Fri, 2/20/09, Halim Issa yalla...@gmail.com wrote:
Seems like there's a critical vulnerability identified
in Adobe Reader, also
applicable to Linux.. Since Adobe apparently doesn't
have any plans to fix this
for another three weeks, would it be an idea to put a
warning in the
thank you, Thomas
--- On Thu, 2/26/09, Thomas Morper thomdi...@aktiivi.ath.cx wrote:
From: Thomas Morper thomdi...@aktiivi.ath.cx
Subject: [Slackbuilds-users] Flash Player security update
To: slackbuilds-users@slackbuilds.org
Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009, 2:21 PM
Just in case this
How about using ARCH=x86_32 for Slackware 12.2 and ARCH=x86_64 for Slackware64
unless the package has nothing to do with any lib/lib64 business, etc, which it
could then have the pure ARCH=noarch?
If setup.py always detects the right python dir as previously mentioned, then
perhaps we only
As an alternative solution, maybe it would be a good idea for all of the SBo
packages to have a default tag that includes the Slackware version (at least
for the 64 bit). So,
python_package-version-noarch-#_SBo64
for Slackware64 and
python_package-version-noarch-#_SBo
for Slackware
CurseTheWeather does not work for now.
Recently weather.com started requiring a different URL format for their XML
feeds. They now require prod, link, par, and key values. The par (partner)
and key values I believe are supposed to be obtained by requesting them from
weather.com. I emailed
To: SlackBuilds.org Users List slackbuilds-users@slackbuilds.org
Cc: pc_war...@yahoo.com
Date: Saturday, August 15, 2009, 11:58 PM
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:58:06 -0700
(PDT)
Phillip Warner pc_war...@yahoo.com
wrote:
CurseTheWeather does not work for now.
Recently weather.com started requiring
desktop/CurseTheWeather: Removed.
desktop/parcellite: Removed.
desktop/whaw: Removed.
network/xrdp: Removed.
I finally had a chance to submit the required changes for these. They are in
/pending now.
--phillip
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development/diakonos: Removed.
I am no longer maintaining the diakonos SlackBuild. If anyone wants to take it
over, you are welcome to it. Otherwise, it will stay removed.
Please note that 0.8.9 is the last version that can be used with Slackware's
current version of ruby. Some patching
I don't think I would want those kind of users installing those packages in the
first place...and if someone else installs the packages, then that person
should do the post-install stuff.
--phillip
--- On Fri, 10/16/09, Niels Horn niels.h...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Niels Horn
Are the slackBuilds for gecko-mediaplayer and gnome-mplayer still being
maintained?
I made my own versions a couple of weeks ago, and then I noticed that they are
in the 12.2 repo. They were never updated for 13.0.
I'd be happy to submit mine. I do not use gconf whatsoever, so I did not make
Thanks for fixing that! I had goofed up and submitted the wrong SlackBuild.
The version that I had intended to submit included a small section to fix the
same issue:
if [ -d $PKG/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/seamonkey-*/mozilla/ ]; then
mv $PKG/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/seamonkey-*/mozilla/ \
Thanks, Robby and Daniel!
--phillip
--- On Fri, 4/9/10, Robby Workman rwork...@slackbuilds.org wrote:
From: Robby Workman rwork...@slackbuilds.org
Subject: Re: [Slackbuilds-users] dmenu slackbuild fix
To: slackbuilds-users@slackbuilds.org
Date: Friday, April 9, 2010, 10:47 AM
On Fri, 9 Apr
The dmenu download link has changed to:
http://dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-4.0.tar.gz
Could one of the admins please correct this in the .info file? Thank you in
advance!
Also thanks to Andrew Bailey for bringing the issue to my attention.
--phillip
--- On Wed, 6/9/10, Robby Workman rwork...@slackbuilds.org wrote:
libraries/CEGUI: libxml2 is included in Slackware.
I believe libxml2 is also still in the 13.1 repo.
There's a new version of CEGUI as well. If anyone would like to take over the
maintenance of CEGUI and some other related
,
Phillip Warner pc_war...@yahoo.com
wrote:
--- On Wed, 6/9/10, Robby Workman rwork...@slackbuilds.org
wrote:
libraries/CEGUI: libxml2 is included in
Slackware.
I believe libxml2 is also still in the 13.1 repo.
(...)
Assuming you're talking about libxml++, they are different
libraries
Speaking of which, for those using Chrome, it might be a good idea to add
http://feeds.feedburner.com/GoogleChromeReleases to your favorite feed reader
so you can be aware of any important updates.
--phillip
--- On Wed, 8/4/10, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo will...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Willy
I'm guessing it is the one mentioned at linuxquestions.org under the Slackware
forum.
--- On Thu, 8/26/10, alkos333 m...@alkos333.net wrote:
From: alkos333 m...@alkos333.net
Subject: [Slackbuilds-users] Google Talk SlackBuild
To: SlackBuilds.org User List slackbuilds-users@slackbuilds.org
--- On Sun, 9/12/10, Robby Workman rwork...@slackbuilds.org wrote:
system/kcm_touchpad: Added (touchpad configuration module
for kde)
The homepage has a typo in it. Correct homepage is:
http://github.com/mishaaq/kcm_touchpad
--phillip
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I just submitted the updated slackbuild stuff. If its okey dokey with Philip,
I'll take over as the Frostwire maintainer.
-Ed
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Phillip Warner pc_war...@yahoo.com wrote:
--- On Sun, 11/21/10, King Beowulf kingbeow...@gmail.com wrote:
On the other
--- On Tue, 11/30/10, King Beowulf kingbeow...@gmail.com wrote:
I think simple is better. Name,
project site, lang/arch, brief
description would be enough. Anyone interested in picking
up the
maintainership can go look up deps and more (and should
anyway since
projects can change). Some
It appears that the flashplayer-plugin .info file still points to version 10_2
while the slackbuild is for 10_3
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--- On Tue, 3/1/11, Greg' Ar Tourter artour...@gmail.com wrote:
There are no 10.3 version for the 32bit version of the
flash plugin,
only the 64bit.
While the SBo format allows to have different sources for
32bit and
64bit, there is currently no way to encode the fact that
the version
--- On Thu, 4/28/11, Ozan Türkyılmaz ozan.turkyil...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Ozan Türkyılmaz ozan.turkyil...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Slackbuilds-users] gecko-mediaplayer
To: SlackBuilds.org Users List slackbuilds-users@slackbuilds.org
Date: Thursday, April 28, 2011, 6:41 AM
2011/4/28 Eugen
--- On Fri, 4/29/11, Eugen Wissner eu...@flevum.de wrote:
1.0.3 doesn't work, it has a bug,
gnome-mplayer doesn't start and
firefox crashes: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364513. But
there is a possibility to try to start this with some extra
compile
flags or to compile the version
The current version of pianobar in the 13.37 repo does not work.
pianobar 2011.04.27 is now required to work with Pandora's current protocol. I
updated my SlackBuild for the new version. I can email it if anyone wants it
or wants to add it to an unofficial git repo for everyone else.
--- On Mon, 5/2/11, Carlos Corbacho car...@strangeworlds.co.uk wrote:
Yes - you need
extra/google-chrome/google-chrome-pam-solibs-1.1.3-x86_64-1.txz
from your local, friendly Slackware mirror.
A *really* important thing to note, however, is that the Chrome Slackware
slackbuild and the SBo
--- On Fri, 5/27/11, Ozan Türkyılmaz ozan.turkyil...@gmail.com wrote:
I can't seem to get gecko-mediaplayer-1.0.0 or 1.0.3 to build on stock
Slackware64 13.37. A fix I saw on linuxquestions.org
recommended installing
xulrunner to fix this compile error:
Around the time the nvidia sw versions started using libvdpau my video
performance began declining. I didn't take too much notice of it until the
recent drivers caused my computer to regularly crash (w/ those IRQ nobody cared
messages...)!
My card is a humble AGP 7600GS with which I am able to
--- On Thu, 7/14/11, Niels Horn niels.h...@slackbuilds.org wrote:
office/libreoffice: Updated for version 3.4.0.
The download link does not appear to be correct. I suggest bumping up to 3.4.1.
--phillip
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--- On Tue, 7/26/11, King Beowulf kingbeow...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, I wrestled with this a while.
Even though I'm old school and run
a full tweaked out xorg.conf, the new fangled consensus
seems to be to
run without and let X and the desktop environment
automagically
configure things.
--- On Thu, 9/15/11, King Beowulf kingbeow...@gmail.com wrote:
BTW, is anyone on this list using any of the nvidia-legacy drivers? At the
moment, all I have left running are a 7600GS, GT430 and GT550 for testing. My
old TNT2, GF256 DDR, GF4 TI 4800 are long gone. Since nouveau is almost
From: King Beowulf kingbeow...@gmail.com
To: SlackBuilds.org Users List slackbuilds-users@slackbuilds.org
Sent: Friday, August 3, 2012 11:41 PM
Subject: [Slackbuilds-users] My tested slackbuilds as of 02-AUG-2012
Slackware14b1
Here are my tested slackbuilds for
Greetings fellow Slackware users!
The following is the status of all the SlackBuilds that my name is listed as
the maintainer. All of them were tested with Slackware 14.0 RC1.
*** Built and tested OK - Ready for 14.0! ***
-- herrie
-- xrdp - upstream now has 0.5.0; ToDo after 14.0 releases
--
Building murrine on 14.0RC is easy. Just bump the version to 0.98.2 and change
the line in the SlackBuild that extracts the source to use a .xz extension.
--phillip
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Since smc has been removed from MASTER smc_music probably should be removed as
well.
Also, I still think windowlist should be removed since it is included with the
latest KDE in Slackware.
--phillip
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From: King Beowulf kingbeow...@gmail.com
To: slackbuilds-users@slackbuilds.org
Sent: Monday, October 1, 2012 1:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Slackbuilds-users] [Slackbuilds.org] today's git: gmtk missing
doinst.sh
Ah..completely missed the gconf/dconf reference in
You could potentially add a new option to sbopkg to generate a queue on the
fly by recursively making use of the REQUIRES in the .info file of the
selected SlackBuild and its respective required SlackBuilds and so on. I
wouldn't recommend building directly from this. Rather the queue would
have
All,
CurseTheWeather broke recently because weather.com changed their weather feed
layout. The software is not officially maintained as far as I can tell, but
many people still use it including myself.
Attached is an updated SlackBuild that includes a patch to fix the feed parsing
and as a
On Saturday, November 9, 2013 8:40 PM, Phillip Warner pc_war...@yahoo.com
wrote:
The following is the list that I have (most of these are not my
SlackBuilds). Note, anything that is indented is different that what is
in the 14.0 repo (typically small version bump
All,
gecko-mediaplayer stopped building correctly against seamonkey libs as of the
seamonkey 2.22 update. With 2.23 it appears to be related to the code syntax
not syncing up with the c++ std, and this can be worked around by specifying
that during compile time (simply add ' -std=c++11' to
On Thursday, January 30, 2014 12:58 AM, Erik Hanson e...@slackbuilds.org
wrote:
Thu Jan 30 05:25:12 UTC 2014
network/tightvnc: Added (VNC viewing application).
Is there any advantage to using this instead of tigervnc from /extra? I know
tightvnc used to be in /extra and was replaced
On Friday, August 22, 2014 8:32 AM, Ryan P.C. McQuen ryanpcmcq...@gmail.com
wrote:
Maybe slackbuilds.org can adopt a similar policy?
I prefer staying on the latest version personally. The features they add with
each new release are exciting to watch.
Modifying the build is easy
Willy,
I still use whaw in Slackware. I have not checked for new releases the past
few months because frankly I did not think there would be any. whaw has not
had a new release in several years.
Regarding the SlackBuild updates, all that is needed for this release is:
1) version bump to
All,
I have not used CEGUI and xrdp in a long time, and the respective slackBuilds
are in need of new maintainers. Is anybody interested?
- CEGUI is now at 0.8.7.
- xrdp, currently at 0.9.9, is now roughly releasing on a four month cycle.
Warmest Regards,
Phillip
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