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
The latest stable version of Linux kernel 4.7.0 landed in Sparky “unstable” repository. Make sure you have Sparky “unstable” repository https://wiki.sparkylinux.org/doku.php/repository active to upgrade or install the latest kernel. amd64: sudo apt-get install linux-image-sparky-amd64 686 non-pae: sudo apt-get install linux-image-sparky-686 686-pae: sudo apt-get install linux-image-sparky-686-pae Then reboot your machine to take effects. To quick remove … Read more
There is an update of Enlightenment 0.21.1 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 still uses EFL 1.17.x. Just released EFL 1.18 Alpha provides elementary, … Read more