sboutils 0.01_beta

Posted: 2022-08-16 | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: misc, slackbuilds, system | Tags: SBo, sboutils, slackbuilds | Leave a comment

Since 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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Udev and libsane.rules

Posted: 2022-07-08 | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: system | Tags: ATTR, libsane, rules, sane, SYSFS, udev | Leave a comment

I decided to upgrade the kernel of my CRUX system from 5.15.26 to 5.18.9. As before, I grabbed the config file from Slackware -current, adjusted the GCC version to 10.3.0 (what comes with CRUX) and made sure to build support for my file system (XFS) into the kernel itself. However, upon boot, I got an error message about udev and libsane.
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VirtualBox disable check for update

Posted: 2022-06-09 | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: system | Tags: vbox, virtualbox, vm | Leave a comment

I recently installed Slackware64 15.0 on one of my boxes (yey!). Not my main system, but it is still nice to have it… I want to play Heroes III in a virtual machine, therefore I installed VirtualBox 6.1. I used the “All distributions” run file and the installation went fine. However, it would not start.
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Mounting an iPhone on CRUX

Posted: 2022-04-24 | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: fuse, gvfs, ifuse, iPhone, libimobiledevice | Leave a comment

The old iPhone saga continues. I use my phone quite “lightly”, but every couple of years I think it’s a good idea to clean the photos and videos. Should be easy enough right? Heh… I naively plugged it in and nothing happened. Well, the libimobiledevice project is iPhone’s friend on Linux. So, i decided to prepare a few ports.
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Cytoscape and JAVA 11

Posted: 2022-04-21 | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: system | Tags: adoptium, adoptopenjdk, cytoscape, java, jdk, ports | Leave a comment

I use Cytoscape for network analyses. It’s a JAVA program, that seems to quite picky about the version and flavour of JAVA. At the moment, Cytoscape 3.9.1 requires JAVA 11, specifically AdoptOpenJDK Hotspot. The project has recently moved to Adoptium, that offer prebuilt OpenJDK binaries.
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