Zotero bibliography manager
Posted: 2014-05-30 Filed under: academic, office, slackbuilds | Tags: bibliography, references, slackbuilds, zotero 2 CommentsI have been looking for a good bibliography manager for Linux. I have used Bibus in the past, it it does not seem to work with the new versions of OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice. Luckily, I got a great tip from Ryan P.C. McQuen — Zotero. Read the rest of this entry »
Slackonly: packages built from SBo
Posted: 2014-04-12 Filed under: misc, slackbuilds, system | Tags: package, slackbuilds, slackonly, slackware 3 CommentsI read about a new project at SlackWorld, with a domain called Slackonly. It provides a repository of packages (for the x86_64 architecture at the moment) built by the scripts at SlackBuilds.org. The repository contains MD5 sums and GPG signatures for all of its packages. In addition, to resolve dependencies problems, the REQUIRES information from the *.info files will be provided in a separate file. Read the rest of this entry »
Recovering installed packages
Posted: 2014-04-05 Filed under: slackbuilds, system | Tags: package, recover, slackbuilds 2 CommentsI came across an interesting discussion at LQ, about extracting a package from its installation and recovering the installable package. Useful if you want to uninstall something, but are not sure if you may need it in the future. Read the rest of this entry »
Building on multiple cores
Posted: 2014-03-16 Filed under: slackbuilds, system | Tags: compiling, make, RAM, slackbuilds, speed up 2 CommentsSometimes, I want to build a package as fast as possible. I have done this, when I had to make a new SlackBuild for something large and I just want to see if all requirements are met. Read the rest of this entry »
Compiling in RAM
Posted: 2014-01-26 Filed under: slackbuilds, system | Tags: compiling, RAM, slackbuilds, speed up Leave a commentI like to speed up the compiling process by compiling in RAM. Almost all additional software that I use is installed from SlackBuilds.org. Scripts from there use /tmp/SBo for compiling, as can be seen from the templates files. Read the rest of this entry »
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