The problem with MATE packages I posted yesterday can be solved by preferences file. Create the file as root, by any text editor, nano for example: nano /etc/apt/preferences and past the code: Package: * Pin: origin repo.mate-desktop.org Pin-Priority: 700 Then run: apt-get update && apt-get dist upgrade From now, the package manager will be … Read more
As you know, it’s not really possible to have support for many devices without non-free drivers. Sparky similar like a couple other Linux distributions features contrib and non-free packages and drivers. In my way, it helps managing the system easily, specially by new Linux users. But… Some people don’t want or don’t like restricted packages … Read more
The last week updates of Openbox up to version 3.5.2-5 can make some problems. It will install ‘openbox-gnome-session’ package as its depends and whole basic GNOME3 environment as well 🙂 If you’d like to put everything back to the prevoius stage, remove extra packages from the system: apt-get remove nautilus openbox-gnome-session gdm3 gnome-bluetooth gnome-control-center … Read more
SparkyLinux 3.0 “GameOver” is ready for download. “GameOver” 3.0 is built on SparkyLinux 3.0 “Annagerman” and compatible with the “testing” branch of Debian GNU/Linux “Jessie”. Sparky 3.0 “GameOver” features: – Linux kernel 3.9.8-1 – all packages updated from Debian testing repositories as of 2013/08/02 – sparky-installer bug has been fixed. It did not let to … Read more
It’s available new iso images of SparkyLinux 2.1.1 “Eris” MATE Edition. On the beginning of April, the MATE team published new version of MATE environment 1.6. SparkyLinux 2.1 MATE Edition features MATE 1.4. It can be a little difficult to make clear upgrade of MATE, so I decided to make new iso images, which … Read more