Debian wheezy: new kernel 2.6.37, evince and audacious fixed
Debian Wheezy is getting in a better shape every day, evince and audacious are installable again. For those of you who use Debian official kernel, probably the biggest news is new 2.6.37 kernel with...
View ArticleDebian wheezy: python 3.2, codeblocks and some breakage
My, oh, my, how things have changed in just 2 days. In contrast to my last blog entry where I stated that things have calmed down, today the picture is quite different.But, let's start with the good...
View ArticleDebian wheezy: Postfix 2.8.0, LibreOffice 3.3.1
Once again, things have slowed down. But, the news are mostly good, most if not all of the breakage reported 5 days ago has now been fixed. libpackage-stash-perl does not make trouble anymore. In fact,...
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Debian wheezy: Iceweasel 4 beta 12
Iceweasel 4 betas are still not in the unstable repository, but as I've seen that people of mozila.debian.net do a fine job packaging Firefox betas, I decided to switch from official Firefox betas to...
View ArticleDebian wheezy: GCC 4.5.2, Berkeley DB 5.1, GMP 5.0.1
Here's just a short notice that GCC/G++ 4.5.2 is now the default compiler in Wheezy. To test it, I've just recompiled the kernel (Linus' 2.6.37), and it's working great. Berkeley DB libdb-dev now...
View ArticleDebian wheezy: dpkg/dselect 1.15.8.10
Been a long time since last report. And there are some good reasons for that. Debian wheezy has progressed at a slower pace, with mostly incremental updates. On the bright side, there has not been any...
View ArticleDebian wheezy: lots of fixes, new stuff
This last week has been fun. Lots of stuff has been fixed. Let's start with the packaging system...The packaging systemdpkg/dselect is now at version 1.16.0. Except the ability to show new packages...
View ArticleDebian wheezy: GCC 4.6 now default
GCC 4.6 is now the default compiler in wheezy. This is what gcc --version says: % gcc --version gcc (Debian 4.6.0-6) 4.6.1 20110428 (prerelease) To celebrate the occasion, I did a quick...
View ArticleDebian wheezy: Perl 5.12, X Server 1.10, Nvidia 270.41.06, Java 6.25, Glibc 2.13
This past week has been quite turbulent for Debian wheezy. Mostly because of the great Perl upgrade from 5.10 to 5.12. This included rebuilding of hundreds of Perl modules to play well with new version...
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Debian changes default desktop environment from GNOME to Xfce
Almost in silence, Debian oldtimer Joey Hess made a commit that will switch default desktop task from GNOME to Xfce in Debian's forthcoming 7.0 Wheezy release. And that was an excellent choice, if I...
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