Firefox issue

  I just moved the latest Firefox 48.0-2 to Sparky repos. Unfortunately it makes an issue with opening some web pages, such as: Facebook, Google+, etc. The error message is: NS_ERROR_NET_INADEQUATE_SECURITY and is reported already: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833719 To fix the problem, upgrade the ‘libnss3’ package to version 3.26-1 from ‘Sid’ repos.  

Thunderbird

  Thunderbird – the email client is available for sparkers now. Sparky is shipped with the Icedove email client as default – Debian’s rebranded Thunderbird. If you do not like/want/etc. Icedove – the Thunderbird can be installed from our repository. Check do you have installed ‘hunspell-en-us’ package, before installing Thunderbird: sudo apt-get update apt-cache policy … Read more

Calligra suite

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The Calligra suite 2.9.7 is available for Sparkers now. From Wikipedia: Calligra Suite is a graphic art and office suite by KDE split from KOffice in 2010. It is available for desktop PCs, tablet computers, and smartphones. It contains applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, databases, vector graphics, and digital painting. Calligra uses the OpenDocument … Read more

EFL 1.18.0

  There is an update of EFL 1.18.0 ready in Sparky repository now. Due to the Enlightenment’s developers changes, the ‘evas-generic-loaders’, ’emotion-generic-players’ and ‘elementary’ have been merged into the EFL package and they are no available (as separated packages) in Sparky repos any more. There is no changes with installing Enlightenment, so do it as … Read more

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