Packages Archives - Cris' hacks

New GitHub account and some SlackBuilds updated

Nov

26

2016

As I said in the previous post, I was in doubt regarding the fact of continuing or not to provide prebuilt packages. Nowadays there are more tools that help Slackware users with the installation of third-party software, compared to the past. This applies both to the installation via SlackBuild scripts and the one from prebuilt ...

Written by Cristiano

Upgraded packages for Slackware 14.2

Jul

2

2016

Slackware 14.2 has been finally released, so I decided to (re)create some new prebuilt packages for this version. The packages (for which I also maintain the SlackBuild scripts at SlackBuilds.org) are libcpuid, libmseed and packETH. As usual, the packages are available for both 32 and 64 bit versions of Slackware and you can find them into ...

Written by Cristiano

libcpuid SlackBuild updated and new SlackBuild for libmseed

Dec

26

2015

A few news for this week. I’ve upgraded the libcpuid SlackBuild for version 0.2.2. You can find it on SlackBuilds.org. The procedure to build the package is the same as described into the second-last post of this blog. In addition I’ve created the SlackBuild script for libmseed. The Mini-SEED library provides a framework for manipulation ...

Written by Cristiano

packETH 1.8.1 SlackBuild and packages

Aug

16

2015

Hi folks, I’ve found this interesting software which can be very useful for testing purposes. Its name is packETH. packETH is a GUI and CLI packet generator tool for ethernet. It allows you to create and send any possible packet or sequence of packets on the ethernet link. It is very simple to use, powerful ...

Written by Cristiano

libcpuid 0.2.1 SlackBuild and packages

Aug

11

2015

In the last week I’ve tried to make my first SlackBuild script. I’ve decided to start with libcpuid. libcpuid is a small C library for x86 CPU detection and feature extraction. Using it, you can: get the processor vendor, model, brand string, code name get information about CPU features such as: number of cores or ...

Written by Cristiano

A way to extract the playback time from mpg123

Dec

26

2014

In the last period I was working on a project concerning UPnP. In particular I was developing a “smart speaker”, a wireless speaker which plays mp3 files by streaming them from a NAS (UPnP media server). The code is written in Java and leans to mpg123, a real time CLI MPEG audio player/decoder. The hardware ...

Written by Cristiano

Upgrade to PHP 5.6.2

Nov

9

2014

In the last days I was trying to create some packages for Slackware 14.1. I’ve created two virtual machines with VirtualBox, one for the 32 bit version and the other for the 64 bit version. These VMs have a clean Slackware installation and are intended to be used only for building packages. I’ve configured slackpkg ...

Written by Cristiano