Yet Another Waste of Space

According to the change log for QT 4.5.0 this version is binary compatible with 4.4.x.  Therefore, any of my packages built against my qt4-4.4.3 package should work correctly with this latest version.  So here is a 4.5.0 package for Slackware 12.2: qt4-4.5.0 Also, this new package places symlinks for the QT4 versions of moc, qmake, [...]

UPX, the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables, 3.03 has been added to the Slacware 12.2 repository.  I had a need to extract a UPX compressed Windows executable at work so I built a package. upx-3.03 The UPX binary is dynamically linked to the UCL library, so a package for version 1.03 of that library has also [...]

Many of my multimedia packages for Slackware 12.2 have gone ignored for quite some time now.  I finally got around to updating several packages, as well as adding a few new ones. First, the new packages: handbrake-0.9.3 – HandBrake is an excellent DVD ripper / video transcoder.  The official Linux GUI is now mature and [...]

I recently had an occasion to use System Rescue CD.  Included in that distribution is an editor called Geany, which I had never heard of.  A search showed that it is a promising lightweight yet fairly full-featured graphical editor and IDE.  If I’m going to check it out for myself, I might as well build [...]

The FileZilla package for Slackware 12.2 has been updated to 3.2.3.1: FileZilla 3.2.3.1 WINE was updated to 1.1.18 a few days ago but I forgot to post anything about it: wine-1.1.18 TrueCrypt is a new addition to the repository.  Version 6.1a has been compiled and uploaded: truecrypt-6.1a A build-time (but not run-time) requirement of TrueCrypt [...]