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[ETP]

Please see my post in the 528 thread.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=587900#587900

The same issue exists in Slacko at line 234. The identical fix applies.

[Iguleder]

I just updated my Slacko repository with the latest versions of all packages. I also added some new ones, such as NetSurf.

All packages were built in a clean Slacko 5.3 environment without Mesa or any other 3D acceleration provider, so they should be compatible with any 5.3.x release. They're stripped and ultra-optimized, as usual.

Note 1: all packages are installed in /opt, since they are "unofficial"; I don't want them to conflict with built-in packages. To make them work, add "/opt/lib" to /etc/ld.so.conf and edit /etc/profile, so /opt/bin is present in the PATH variable.

Note 2: some functionality was removed from these packages: man's conversion utilities (which are unneeded), cmus' cmus-remote executable (which isn't used often), Dropbear's scp client (which is useless, since Dropbear is used as a SSH server or client) and wbar's GTK+ configuration tool (which makes it much heavier).

Note 3: it will take some time for the packages (and their sources) to be uploaded, since I'm currently moving iguleder.info to its new location.

Internet:
- aria2, a multi-protocol (HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Magnet, etc') download tool
- Axel, the latest version - better than the ancient one we use in the official releases
- CenterIM - a multi-protocol instant messenger, way lighter than Pidgin or Finch
- Dropbear - a SSH server and client
- Irssi - an IRC client
- Mutt - an e-mail client
- Snownews - a news reader, with support for RSS feeds
- NetSurf - a graphical web browser
- Links - a text web browser, built without its graphical mode (which isn't worth much, since it's about twice the size of NetSurf and looks horrible)

Utility:
- rxvt-unicode - a terminal emulator, lighter and newer than the one in official releases
- GNU Screen - a terminal multiplexer

System:
- Htop - an interactive process monitor

File system:
- CLEX - a file manager

Multimedia:
- libav - a complete audio streaming, conversion and recording solution
- cmus - a music player with awesome features found only in the big guys (Rhythmbox, Amarok and Banshee), at a tiny fraction of the size; has an optional dependency on libav
- mplayer2 - a media player, which uses libav to provide support for many codecs and formats

Personal:
- Calcurse - a calendar and personal organizer
- hnb - a hierarchical notebook for storing notes or any other data

Graphics:
- imlib2 - an image loading library, built with additional loaders for more formats
- sxiv - an image viewer that utilizes imlib2

Desktop:
- wbar - a lighweight dock, depends on imlib2

Document:
- Vim - the ultimate text editor

Misc.:
- man, groff and less - a manual page viewer and its dependencies: a text formatting tool and a text viewer
- cwm and libbsd - OpenBSD's minimalistic window manager and a library I used to port it to GNU/Linux

[01micko]

[Iguleder]

I clicked the "upload" menu entry in the beloved FileZilla, but I'm uploading huge files right now, which will take forever.

I changed the upload priority, so the packages are pouring in now

Bear in mind that if you want to upload them to the repo, they require some fixes:
- /opt/bin in PATH
- /opt/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf
- /opt/share/applications and /opt/share/pixmaps in the menu generator (or just make them symlinks to those in /usr/share, so the package files get redirected to the system-wide directories)

EDIT: forgot this - happy Hanukkah

IMHO 5.3.1 should be released in the name of coexistence, tolerance and peace, as a Christmas and Hanukkah gift to the world

EDIT 2: CenterIM is quite big, I want to see how Finch is.

[01micko]

[Bert]

[Iguleder]

Even more packages!

I wrote build scripts for:
- Shed, my favorite hex editor - sort of an interactive hexdump with a nano-like interface
- tty-clock, a digital clock
- Surfraw, a search engine frontend written by Julian_Assange, which makes it kinda problematic, since this guy got arrested.
- dtach, a tool that lets you "detach" an application and attach to it later
- rTorrent, the best BitTorrent client on the planet. I'm thinking of replacing aria2 with this one, since the latter is in the repository thanks to its BitTorrent capabilities. The only reason rTorrent isn't included in the repository is the trouble I'm having with getting to build against a static libtorrent.

These require some testing; once they're ready, I'll add them to the repository.

EDIT: all packages up; I decided to use a shared libtorrent eventually.

[Q5sys]

[Aitch]

I agree, and I'm sure Joe/big_bass and aragon will too

Aitch

[01micko]

[Q5sys]

[ravensrest]

Whenever I boot Slacko53, I get this error message:

[01micko]

ravensrest

Thanks of the report.. which kernel? 2.6.37.6 or 2.6.39.4?
It's too late for a kernel recompile now as that is what's needed, but this will make it's way into future versions unless the patch is taken on upstream by kernel.org then it will be standard.

[rodin.s]

I have a strange sound distortion in mplayer in pupradio while listening to vprbbc (6). It doesn't happen in Racy-5.2.2.

[01micko]