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.
There is a new desktop available for Sparkers now: CDE. From Wikipedia: The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is a desktop environment for Unix and OpenVMS, based on the Motif widget toolkit. It was part of the UNIX98 Workstation Product Standard, and was long the “classic” Unix desktop associated with commercial Unix workstations. After a long … Read more
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
There is an update of Enlightenment 0.21.2 ready in Sparky repository now. Make upgrade as usually: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade If you would like to make fresh installations, run: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install enlightenment The present version of Enlightenment 0.21.2 uses EFL 1.18 and Python-EFL 1.18 (both available in our … Read more
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