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 [...]
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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: [...]
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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 [...]
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Today I’ve uploaded my first application to the Arch User Repository (AUR): a printer driver for the Brother MFC-8870DW. I’m afraid it’s possibly the first of many. The first reason why I’ve uploaded it is because it didn’t exist yet. Second, and more importantly, I almost forgot how to install it. I figured it out [...]
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