There is a new application available for Sparkers: Nala What is Nala? Nala is a front-end for libapt-pkg. Specifically we interface using the python-apt api. Especially for newer users it can be hard to understand what apt is trying to do when installing or upgrading. We aim to solve this by not showing some redundant … Read more
There is a new repo mirror available for Sparkers, located in Chicago, USA. Mirror US1 is provided by the https://fosshost.org – thanks a lot! http://us1.repo.sparkylinux.org If you would like to provide a mirror repo server in your location, send a message via contact form, please. Requirements and settings: https://wiki.sparkylinux.org/doku.php/mirrors If you’d like, I can set … Read more
There are two, new repo mirrors available for Sparkers, both located in Germany. Mirror DE1 is provided by JackGrumbler: de1.repo.sparkylinux.org (not active any more) Mirror DE2 is provided by MoroS: de2.repo.sparkylinux.org Thanks a lot both, JackGrumbler and MoroS. If you would like to provide a mirror repo server in your location, send a message via … Read more
Due to a few requests on our forums and via messages I received, the special editions meta packages are ready in Sparky’s repso. What’s that? The meta packages install all additional extra tools, applications, games, etc. required by the specific Sparky special edition. The meta packages can be installed on the top of your existing … Read more
There are a few 3th party updates in our repository ready to go: – Enlightenment 0.20.1 (0.20.99.20870) – Master PDF Editor 3.5.16 – SpiderOakOne 6.1 – TeamViewer 11.0.53191 – TOR Browser 5.0.5 Upgrade your system as usually: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade or via ‘Update Tool’ or ‘Synaptic’ as you wish.