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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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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CRUX ports added to portdb
Posted: 2022-12-30 Filed under: misc | Tags: CRUX, portdb, ports, repo Leave a commentMy collection of CRUX ports has been just added to the portdb section at CRUX’s web-site, as ppetrov. I also maintain Xfce 4.12 for CRUX 3.7, but decided that it will not be of much interest, so it’s not there. Anyway, both repos are available at GitHub.
Cytoscape and JAVA 11
Posted: 2022-04-21 Filed under: system | Tags: adoptium, adoptopenjdk, cytoscape, java, jdk, ports Leave a commentI 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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