huludesktop for linux … and slackware !!
so i just saw that hulu.com labs has recently published a desktop player for linux. using my rpm-slackpack script , i converted the fedora packages they have for download, into slackware tgz's.
you can download the i386 and x86_64 from cardinal.lizella.net/~vbatts/
once you've downloaded and installed it, pending you have the flash-player-plugin installed from slackbuilds.org, or some other means, you will need to edit the file ~/.huludesktop, on the line "flash_location = (null)", to the location of the flash library. For me, its as follows.
$ grep libflash /var/log/packages/flash-player-plugin-10.0_r32-x86_64-1_SBo usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
then you have a command `huludesktop`, and away you go!
Take care,
vb
kde-4.3.1 x86_64, for slackware-current
i realize i just posted 4.3.0, but now 4.3.1 is tagged.
http://cardinal.lizella.net/~vbatts/kde/kde4-packages/4.3.1/
take care,
vb
Openoffice.org 3.1.0 on Dell Mini 9 with Ubuntu 8.04.1
So I have *finally* received the 9 inch Dell mini that I had ordered over a month ago. The device pre-installed with Ubuntu was much more preferable, even though the release is a couple of versions old now.
Everything is great so far, but the first thing that i had to do was update the version of OpenOffice.org being used. Its not so much that I have any problems with version 2.4, but rather everything else I am using is version 3.0 or 3.1. I have seen several issues when opening and transferring an *.odt between varying versions of openoffice. Its never fun to lose or mess up formating.
Luckily for me, there were only a couple of dependencies that had to be resolved and the packages I lost, didn't really impact me.
First off, I had to add the project that maintains the lastest OOo for Ubuntu. Either through the GUI or to /etc/apt/sources.list, add
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu hardy main
and then wget their key and import it. I panzied out and used the GUI to import it.
http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu/dists/hardy/Release.gpg
you next apt-get update, and should remove the following to packages, and all their dependencies.
aptitude remove openoffice.org-l10n-en-za openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb
at which point, you are clear to do an
aptitude dist-upgrade
all done!
take care,
vb
kde-4.1.96 for slackware-current
again, for those who are on slackware-current, and are taking part of the kde4 packages in /testing. i've posted the latest build of kde-4.2rc1 (4.1.96)
these pacakges are on cardinal (http://cardinal.lizella.net/~vbatts/kde/kde4-packages/)
you should upgradepkg to the latest version'ed pacakges in the deps/ directory as well.
enjoy !