Blueman and Pulseaudio
Posted: 2024-11-30 Filed under: desktop, ports, system | Tags: blueman, bluez, pulseaudio, sbc Leave a commentI have bluetooth headphones that I connect to my PC running CRUX with Pulseaudio. However, I have experienced problems with connecting them. This is something from before, but I decided to outline the solution.
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Extracting a *.snap package
Posted: 2024-10-31 Filed under: network, ports, system | Tags: ports, skype, squash 1 CommentI still use Skype, however I was stuck at an old version. The reason was that this was the last *.deb package of the program provided by upstream. For the following versions, it is distributed as a *.snap. I really know nothing about these and I thought I was done with Skype. Well, turns out that’s not the case.
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WPS Office bold fonts problems
Posted: 2024-08-10 Filed under: office, ports, system | Tags: bold, freetype, WPS Office 13 CommentsI use WPS Office for my work and so far have been quite happy with it. However, I noticed that it has some problem with certain fonts, when bold. I am not sure when this started, but apparently it happened after a certain freetype update. So, I decided to look around for a solution.
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r4-modules repo added to portdb
Posted: 2024-01-21 Filed under: ports, system | Tags: cran2crux, CRUX, modules, portdb, ports, R, r-modules, r4-modules Leave a commentMy collection of ports building R modules has been just added to the portdb section of CRUX, as r4-modules. At the moment, there are 374 entries, mostly bioinformatics-oriented. The ports themselves are hosted at my crux-ports GitHub.
I have been using the repo for about a month, but thought that others may benefit from it, too. So, here it is.
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cran2crux: ports for R modules
Posted: 2023-12-27 Filed under: ports, system | Tags: CRAN, CRUX, portdb, ports, R Leave a commentI use R in my work and I wanted to find a way to easily create CRUX ports for system-wide installation of its modules. Having them managed by the distro’s packaging system has its advantages: I can check them with revdep or use custom settings at build time. However, I did not find a ready solution, so I wrote a tool myself, called cran2crux (for detailed info, check it’s page). The cran2crux script automatically generates CRUX port(s) for R modules available from CRAN. On my TODO list is making it work with Bioconductor, as well.
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