libgtkmozembed gone in the latest seamonkey

The latest seamonkey package has removed a shared library called libgtkmozembed. This shared library is still available on the previous seamonkey build, so Pat rebuilt the package which has this library removed.

If you still need libgtkmozembed for any other application, you might reconsider to use Seamonkey 1.1.18 rather than upgrading to Seamonkey 2.0. I don't use Seamonkey on daily basis, so i have no problem using 1.1.18 instead of having problem with other applications due to removal of libgtkmozembed.

Here's the latest -Current changelog:

Wed Nov 11 21:17:19 UTC 2009
l/seamonkey-solibs-2.0-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
xap/seamonkey-2.0-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
As of version 2.0, SeaMonkey no longer includes a shared libgtkmozembed library, so the pkgconfig and header files for this have been removed from the package to avoid confusion over why trying to compile programs that use it no longer works. There's not really any way to avoid this issue --it's either upgrade SeaMonkey and lose libgtkmozembed, or keep using version 1.1.18 and miss out on SeaMonkey security updates. If you really need libgtkmozembed, the seamonkey-1.1.18 packages will be retained in either /patches or /pasture for Slackware versions 13.0 and earlier.

Mozilla Packages Upgraded

Two Mozilla packages (Mozilla Firefox and Seamonkey) are upgraded on the latest -Current batch. The Seamonkey is now using 2.0, a major update from 1.x, while Firefox remains stays with the latest update, 3.5.5 which bring stability updates instead of security update.

Here's the latest -Current changelog:

Sun Nov 8 04:14:58 UTC 2009
l/seamonkey-solibs-2.0-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

xap/mozilla-firefox-3.5.5-i686-1.txz: Upgraded.
Upgraded to firefox-3.5.5.
This fixes some stability bugs.

xap/seamonkey-2.0-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

Phonon Package Restored

On the last update, Pat removed Phonon package and it makes the sound system are unusable on some systems (including mine) and the system got muted. It turns out that Qt package is still missing Phonon files required by KDE. So the latest update brings those files back again by re-adding Phonon and rebuilt Qt with new option. This should bring the fix for everyone

Here's the latest -Current changelog:

Sat Nov 7 22:09:46 UTC 2009
l/phonon-4.3.1-i486-2.txz: Added.
Phonon in Qt is missing support files needed by KDE, so this package restores the missing pieces. The Phonon library, include files, and pkgconfig files will remain in the Qt package, as those are the most up-to-date versions. This package will contain the xine and gstreamer backends and other files needed by KDE. The gstreamer backend source is taken from the newer sources in Qt, not from the standalone Phonon.
Sorry about the misfire last time... this stuff should work. :-)

l/qt-4.5.3_063bded-i486-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Use -phonon -no-phonon-backend options.

KDE 4.3.3 on Slackware-Current

Slackware-Current has included KDE 4.3.3 on the latest batch of updates today. The latest Java (JRE and JDK) are also included on this update. One interesting thing is the removal of Phonon package which is the multimedia package for KDE. On my system, Amarok won't play any MP3 files again after removal of Phonon, so i finally tried to install it again and it worked.

My suggestion is that if you are running rsync, have a backup of phonon package just in case removing phonon broke your Amarok .

Here's the latest -Current changelog:

Fri Nov 6 00:22:35 UTC 2009
a/less-418-i486-4.txz: Rebuilt.
Patched lesspipe.sh to handle files of the form *.{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,n}.gz that are not gzipped *roff. Thanks to Mark Post.

kde/kdeaccessibility-4.3.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdeadmin-4.3.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdeartwork-4.3.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdebase-4.3.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdebase-runtime-4.3.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdebase-workspace-4.3.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdebindings-4.3.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdeedu-4.3.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdegames-4.3.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdegraphics-4.3.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdelibs-4.3.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdelibs-experimental-4.3.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdemultimedia-4.3.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdenetwork-4.3.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdepim-4.3.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdepim-runtime-4.3.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdepimlibs-4.3.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdeplasma-addons-4.3.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdesdk-4.3.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdetoys-4.3.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdeutils-4.3.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdevelop-3.9.96-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdevplatform-0.9.96-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdewebdev-4.3.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/koffice-2.0.91-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/oxygen-icons-4.3.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kdei/*: Upgraded.

l/gst-plugins-base-0.10.25-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

l/gst-plugins-good-0.10.16-i486-1.txz: Added.

l/gstreamer-0.10.25-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.


l/jre-6u17-i586-1.txz: Upgraded.
Upgraded to Java(TM) 2 Platform Standard Edition Runtime Environment Version 6.0 update 17.

l/phonon-4.3.1-i486-1.txz: Removed.

l/qca-2.0.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

l/qt-4.5.3_063bded-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled to add the included version of the Phonon multimedia framework.

l/strigi-0.7.0-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

x/dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.30-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.

extra/jdk-6/jdk-6u17-i586-1.txz: Upgraded.
Upgraded to Java(TM) 2 Platform Standard Edition Development Kit Version 6.0 update 17.

KDE 4.3.3 Released

A month has passed and now it's time for KDE to release their monthly updates to KDE 4.3.x series. The latest version of KDE is now 4.3.3 and it's a maintenance update which brings more translations and updates to many parts of KDE components.

The changelog will highlight the changes that happened since 4.3.2 release month ago. There hasn't huge change on this release as new features will be placed on KDE 4.4 which should be available on late January or early February 2010.

Let's hope it will be available on -Current soon.

New Poll

Slackware 13.0 has been released for some time and i wanted to know how fast does Slackware installation. So that comes up to a question of the next poll: How long do you need to install a fresh copy of Slackware on your machine?

Please give your vote

Poll Result

After two months since the last poll, finally it's a chance to announce the poll results. Two months ago, i asked what features that you think most interesting on Slackware 13.0. So here's the results:

Major Upgrade for Desktop Environment 48 (39%)
Newer Kernel for Better Hardware Support 41 (33%)
x86_64 porting 71 (58%)
Automatic Detection for X Org 39 (32%)
New .txz Format With Better Compression 60 (49%)
Improved Network Detection Through wicd 29 (23%)
Major Upgrade on Firefox 26 (21%)
Better Video Player with MPlayer 29 (23%)
Better Wireless Intel Driver 23 (19%)
Others (not mentioned in above options) 11 (9%)

We came up with x86_64 porting as the winner, followed by new .txz format with LZMA algorithm to reduce file size. It's no surprise, since x86_64 support has been requested by many people and there hasn't any official support for them until Eric came up and started this porting. Fred with his Slamd64 has done a great job in the past, but now, here comes the official porting from Patrick and the Slackware team.

Security Update: Firefox

Like i mentioned before, Firefox will definitely be updated and the update has arrived today. You can grab them in the Slackware-Current and also in Slackware-Stable tree.

Here's the -Current changelog entry for today:

Mon Nov 2 20:41:16 UTC 2009
xap/mozilla-firefox-3.5.4-i686-1.txz: Upgraded.
Upgraded to firefox-3.5.4.
This fixes some security issues.
For more information, see:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox35.html
(* Security fix *)

Two Packages Upgraded

There are two packages that gets upgraded today, PyQT and sip. Both resides in l/ directory.

Here's the latest -Current changelog:

Sat Oct 31 21:40:29 UTC 2009
l/PyQt-4.6.1-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

l/sip-4.9.1-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

GCC Packages Upgraded

GCC packages on testing/ are being upgraded to the latest one, 4.4.2. Please note that these packages are still considered unstable, so it's being placed under testing/ and not in d/. If you plan to use this packages, you are at your own, even though i believe the risk is quite minimum.

Here's the latest -Current changelog:

Fri Oct 30 23:37:47 UTC 2009
testing/packages/gcc-4.4.2/gcc-4.4.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

testing/packages/gcc-4.4.2/gcc-g++-4.4.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

testing/packages/gcc-4.4.2/gcc-gfortran-4.4.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

testing/packages/gcc-4.4.2/gcc-gnat-4.4.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

testing/packages/gcc-4.4.2/gcc-java-4.4.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

testing/packages/gcc-4.4.2/gcc-objc-4.4.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

QScintilla Rebuilt

QScintilla package has been rebuilt to fix missing PyQt bindings. This is the only update for today, but i believe Firefox 3.5.4 will come out in no time, since it contains several security fixes for nasty vulnerabilities on 3.5.3. Just wait and see.

Security Updates: Poppler + xpdf

Two security updates were released on Slackware-Current today. They are poppler and xpdf. Along with this two updates, several packages gets recompiled and updated as well.

Here is the latest -Current changelog:

Wed Oct 28 22:50:35 UTC 2009
kde/kdegraphics-4.3.2-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled against new libpoppler.

kde/koffice-2.0.83-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled against new libpoppler.

l/babl-0.1.0-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

l/gegl-0.1.0-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

l/poppler-0.12.1-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
Security fixes based on xpdf 3.02pl4 were integrated.
For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3603
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3604
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3605
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3606
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3608
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3609
(* Security fix *)

l/poppler-data-0.3.0-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.

xap/gimp-2.6.7-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

xap/xpdf-3.02pl4-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
This update fixes several security issues that could lead to an application crash, or execution of arbitrary code.
For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3603
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3604
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3605
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3606
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3608
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3609
(* Security fix *)

KDE 4.3.2 on Slackware-Current

KDE 4.3.2 has been included on -Current, thanks to Pat, Vincent Batts, Robby Workman, Piter Punk,
and Eric Hameleers. Along with these updates, there are several packages that gets upgraded too.

Here's the latest -Current changelog:

Thu Oct 22 22:09:40 UTC 2009
New KDE and other updates. Thanks to Vincent Batts, Robby Workman, Piter Punk, and Eric Hameleers for the help!

ap/gphoto2-2.4.7-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/guidance-power-manager-4.3.1-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/k3b-1.68.0-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kaudiocreator-r1038308-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdeaccessibility-4.3.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdeadmin-4.3.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdeartwork-4.3.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdebase-4.3.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdebase-runtime-4.3.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdebase-workspace-4.3.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdebindings-4.3.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdeedu-4.3.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdegames-4.3.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdegraphics-4.3.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdelibs-4.3.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdelibs-experimental-4.3.2-i486-1.txz: Added.

kde/kdemultimedia-4.3.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdenetwork-4.3.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdepim-4.3.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdepim-runtime-4.3.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdepimlibs-4.3.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdeplasma-addons-4.3.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdesdk-4.3.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdetoys-4.3.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdeutils-4.3.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdevelop-3.9.95-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdevplatform-0.9.95-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kdewebdev-4.3.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/koffice-2.0.83-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/konq-plugins-4.3.1-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/kopete-cryptography-1.3.0_kde4.3.1-i486-1.txz: Added.

kde/ktorrent-3.2.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kde/oxygen-icons-4.3.2-i486-1.txz: Added.

kde/skanlite-0.3_kde4.3.1-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

kdei/*: Upgraded.

l/PyQt-4.6-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

l/QScintilla-2.4-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

l/akonadi-1.2.1-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

l/alsa-lib-1.0.21a-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

l/eigen2-2.0.6-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

l/libgphoto2-2.4.7-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

l/qt-4.5.3_063bded-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

l/sip-4.9-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

l/wv2-0.4.1-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

xap/MPlayer-r29789-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

extra/wicd/wicd-1.6.2.2-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

Webcam Under Skype

For some time, i have been trying to enable my webcam under Skype on my Slackware box. I know that it's possible, since i have seen many people able to do that on their machine. The wait is now over, as i have managed to enable it today, thanks to this thread on LQ.

First of all, you need to build libv4al which is available from Slackbuilds. Once you have built the package, make a new file under /usr/bin (or anyplace you like). Let's call it webcamSkype (or whatever suits you) and paste this

#!/bin/bash
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /opt/skype/skype

On my system, i put Skype under /opt/skype, so when you place Skype on different directory, you should change the path according to your system. Don't forget to make the script executable by running:

chmod +x /usr/bin/webcamSkype

Next, edit your shortcut using menu editor (assuming you are using KDE) and change the path to Skype binary into /usr/bin/webcamSkype.

If you want to make sure the webcam works, just use Options > Video Devices and click on the test button on the right top of the window. If it works, you can start video call using Skype with your friends, relatives, and colleagues