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Archive for July, 2011

July 28th, 2011 by Niels Horn in , , |

The official collection of Lego parts from LDraw was updated this week.
This collection of "virtual" pieces is used by programs as LDView, ldglite and l3p.
The leocad program uses its own "pieces" library, but is usually updated right after the LDraw parts library.
I updated the scripts for both packages and submitted the results to SlackBuilds.org, where [...]

July 27th, 2011 by Niels Horn in , |

Nagios 3.3.1 was released a few days ago and since it is a program I like a lot, I immediately started working on the updated SlackBuild script.
What is new
The complete ChangeLog for version 3.3.1 can be found here. Basically, it contains several improvements and bug-fixes "under the hood", but it also has some new enhancements [...]

July 26th, 2011 by Niels Horn in , |

I received two different reports over the last few days that version 2.31 of Transmission was causing segmentation faults and that the new 2.33 version solved this.
Although I use Transmission all the time, I never experienced this problem. But, since updating to 2.33 solves this for others, I updated my SlackBuild and submitted the new [...]

July 21st, 2011 by Niels Horn in ,

Another version of LibreOffice was released recently, 3.4.1.
When I first "created" the SlackBuild for LibreOffice (I actually adapted rworkman's OpenOffice.org script with his permission) it was because I was convinced that it would substitute OpenOffice.org eventually, as "open source" and "Oracle" did not sound like a happy marriage. And it seems that I was right, [...]

July 12th, 2011 by Niels Horn in , |

Exactly a year after the precious version, 3.17.0 of DeVeDe was released.
The release statement tells us that the following items were added / fixed:

Fixed a bug in MKISOFS, when it shows decimals with a comma instead of a dot
Defines the VIDEO_FORMAT environment variable, needed in current SPUMUX versions
Added bugfix AC3_FIX for current MENCODER versions
Other little [...]