Due of lack of time I did not publish a newsletter last mount. Now I am a little less busy so it’s perfect time to do so. All media of SparkyLinux have been updated to version 3.2 in December 2013: LXDE, Ultra, Razor-Qt, MATE, Enlightenment, CLI and GameOver. Apogee of activity occurred on January 4, … Read more
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
Important info for Sparky MATE users. Due MATE packages showed up in Debian testing repository, they made a big problem to existing packages of official MATE packages. If you upgrade your Sparky MATE installation via Synaptic or ‘dist-upgrade’ command, it will destroy the MATE desktop completly. In this moment I highly suggest to use … Read more
3…2…1… Go! New Sparky 3.2.1 with Xfce desktop showed up in our family! SparkyLinux 3.2.1 Xfce is based on the last release 3.2 “Annagerman” and it’s fully compatible with Debian testing “Jessie”. Sparky Xfce has gotten a few new features, which will be added to the next Sparky release. So what is under the hood? … Read more
SparkyLinux 3.2 “GameOver” is out. It has been built on the top of SparkyLinux 3.2 “Annagerman” and it’s fully compatible with Debian “testing” Jessie. SparkyLinux “GameOver” is a special edition of our distro targeted to game players. “GameOver” 3.2 offers : – access to games compiled for Linux platform – access to “popular” and “modern” … Read more