Viber won’t start
Posted: 2022-12-08 Filed under: misc | Tags: keyboard, layout, phonetic, viber, xkb Leave a commentRecently, I upgraded Viber (for Linux desktop) to version 18.2.0.2. However, it simply would not start, although dependencies were satisfied. Therefore, I searched for a fix.
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GitHub direct download links
Posted: 2022-10-31 Filed under: misc, network | Tags: direct, downloads, git, github, link Leave a commentAs a maintainer at SlackBuilds.org, I would like to have a handy place to store some “problematic” sources and some other files. Once upon a time, I used SourceForge, but I wanted to have it at Slackalaxy’s GitHub repo. Uploading tarballs is fine, however what should be the download link to put in, for example, a *.info file?
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sboutils 0.01_beta
Posted: 2022-08-16 Filed under: misc, slackbuilds, system | Tags: SBo, sboutils, slackbuilds Leave a commentSince I moved back to Slackware as my major system, I wanted to make SlackBuild scripts and SlackBuilds.org a bit easier to deal with. Therefore I wrote myself several small tools, collectively called sboutils. I will be busy in the following weeks, so I decided to call its current stage as first release candidate 0.01_beta.
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Hello again, Slackware…
Posted: 2022-08-06 Filed under: misc | Tags: CRUX, slackware 3 CommentsAfter a year on CRUX as my main system, I made the decision to move back to Slackware. I really hope that such a long gap between releases will not happen again. I have several reasons for that, outlined below.
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Ten years of Slackalaxy
Posted: 2022-05-31 Filed under: misc Leave a commentTen years ago, I started my humble blog. It has been a nice run and although I do not have many visitors, I like to believe someone found useful stuff here. Ah yes, I have total of 248 posts, including this one.
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