SparkyLinux Base spins are shipped with no multimedia codecs preinstalled. As one of our community member suggested I have made a small tool which lets you install all multimedia codecs and web browser plugins via one click. Installation: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sparky-codecs or sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade If you make … Read more
New application landed in Sparky repo: XnViewMP 0.71 – free photo editor, manager and viewer. XnViewMP is the enhanced version to XnView. It is a powerful cross-platform media browser, viewer and converter. Compatible with more than 500 formats. XnViewMP is provided as FREEWARE (NO Adware, NO Spyware) for private or educational use (including non-profit organizations). … Read more
After a few tests and improvements I have made, Sparky-APTus-Upgrade works as I wish to. The package has been upgraded up to version 0.1.7 and provides the recommended tool for upgrading Sparky installation. The tool will be pre-installed in the December’s iso images. 0.1.7 changelog: – added re-refreshing package list after finishing/breaking the upgrading process … Read more
We have two new apps in our repo: 1. As Jessie mentioned at the Weekly Distrowatch Issue 581, you can’t manage the system services using the standard ‘systemd-ui’ tool. sparky-systemd-ui lets you manage systemd units as root. It provides the Menu entry to do so. 2. ‘System Upgrade’ is the second new app which lets … Read more
Updates in Sparky repository as of 2014/10/21: – sparky-center-lxde-0.2.2 – two packages have been removed from Debian testing repo, so they broken sparky-center-lxde-0.2.1; – sparky-aptus-extra-0.1.6 – added new app ‘veracrypt’ to the list; – radiance-e19-sparky-0.1.2 – the default e19 Sparky theme with the right wallpaper ‘8mmb’; – e19-0.19.99.18997 – version 0.19.1 of Enlightenment 19 is … Read more