Arch Linux has a very decent system for building packages called ABS or Arch Build System. It basically comes down to one file called the pkgbuild where you put all the necessary information to construct a package. Everything else is taken care by makepkg, the tool that reads, compiles and builds the package accordingly. Because [...]
Yesterday I added another 2 packages to the Arch User Repository (AUR) which brings up my total to 6. The 2 applications are the mercury compiler and csrftester.
I was surprised to see there was no fitting packaged mercury compiler available in any of the Arch Linux repositories. Arch has many compilers available but apparantly not [...]
Today I’ve added vdpauinfo to the Arch User Repository (AUR), which makes it my fourth uploaded application to AUR. Vdpauinfo is a useful tool to determine the vdpau capabilities of your graphics card.It is an updated version of Wladimir J. Van der Laan’s vdpinfo tool.
Here’s the output of my Nvidia Geforce 8400M GS:
display: :0.0 [...]
After various requests and personal interest in the matter, I finally tryed to get skype working on my Sony Vaio SZ6 with Arch Linux 64bit and pulseaudio installed. Skype and linux never mingled all that well. Supporting linux was never high on their todo list and they surely acted upon it. Skype has never gotten [...]
I’ve posted another 2 packages to the Arch User Repository (AUR): netembryo and libnemesi. The first is a network abstraction library, the latter is an implementation of RTSP. Both didn’t exist in AUR yet so I guess there’s not much demand for them yet (I don’t even use them myself).
MPlayer has initial support for libnemesi [...]