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Archive for the 'QComicBook' Category

August 3rd, 2011 by Niels Horn in , |

With all the updates to packages, I forgot completely to mention QComicBook. I updated my SlackBuild script for version 0.8.1, which now also supports pdf files.
As always, the pre-built packages can be downloaded from my site.

September 5th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , , , |

No, I did not abandon ARMedslack, the official port of Slackware to the ARM architecture… It was simply a matter of lack of time (or a question of priorities, depending of your point of view).
But this weekend I finally found some time to setup a clean build environment based on the stable ARMedslack 13.1 version.
The [...]

August 21st, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

QComicBook 0.6.0 was actually released almost a month ago, but only now I had some time to create the new packages…
This new version has support for translations (including Portuguese!) and some minor enhancements.
There are some very interesting changes in the development branch, but these will probably only be released in the next stable version.
A new [...]

November 30th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , |

Today (*) a new version of QComicBook was released - 0.5.0. The release announcement can be read on freshmeat.
I submitted a new SlackBuild script to SlackBuilds.org. The previous one, for version 0.4.4, won't work as the author has changed to using cmake.
If you can't wait for the SlackBuild to be approved, you can download complete [...]

October 15th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , |

If you like to read comic books you might know about the enormous collections of digitalized copies that float around the internet. Normally they are in '.cbr' or '.cbz' format, actually simple rar'd or zipped collections of images.
To read them on your computer, you can either unpack the file and use a standard image viewer, [...]