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Bertman123 06-23-2013 01:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kikinovak (Post 4977156)
One word of caution. All packages are built on Slackware stable and meant to run on Slackware stable. I don't know how it works on current (might eat your hamster).

On the other hand, you can expect a new updated version for Slackware 14.1. Present versions will remain online and will continue to receive updates, though.

So far so good. The only thing I notice is that I can not watch amazon prime videos. Not a big deal since I don't usually watch them on my tower. I keep getting a message saying that the flash player needs to be updated. I tried installing the current version from slackbuilds, but it did not help.

Other than that (aside from forgetting to change the locale back to english) I think you did an outstanding job with this. :-)

kikinovak 06-24-2013 01:04 PM

Today's ChangeLog.txt:

Code:

Mon Jun 24 10:40:37 CEST 2013
Replaced 'get-MLED.sh' by 'install-MLED.sh'. This new script makes installing
MLED even more simple. Instead of downloading everything using wget and
installing the package collection using upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new,
we just parse the 'build_order' script and use slackpkg to install everything.
Removed the 'get-multilib.sh' script as well as the multilib/ directory, since
this is also handled much more efficiently by slackpkg now.
Updated the documentation in 'MLED-14.0-*/README.txt' to reflect these changes.
Added a section about managing MLED with slackpkg+ and fixed a few typos.
Thanks to zakame, rinias and Bertman123 on LQ.
+--------------------------+
Mon Jun 24 08:49:54 CEST 2013
patches/ffmpeg-0.11.1-x86_64-2_microlinux.txz: Rebuilt.
  Fixed inconsistent $ARCH field in the package name, which made the package
        fly under slackpkg's radar ;o)


chess 06-24-2013 01:34 PM

Nice work, @kikinovak! I am definitely going to give MLED a spin. I love the way it looks.

@Bertman123 - Amazon prime video works, but you have to do a couple of workarounds. First, you have to reinstall hal and then you have disable Chrome's built in flash (if you are using Chrome). Check out this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...eo-4175418058/

I watch Doctor Who in Chrome on my Slackware laptop using Amazon prime and it works fine. I seem to recall that I grabbed the hal slackbuild and source from 13.37 and rebuilt it on my 14.0 box but I can't remember for sure. But I do know that hal is needed.

Hope this helps!

sebre 06-24-2013 01:35 PM

Very clean job you made, sturdy and effective way of making things work. Inspiring pure slackism.
And I like very much your howtos.
Thank you.

Bertman123 06-24-2013 06:50 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by chess (Post 4977692)
Nice work, @kikinovak! I am definitely going to give MLED a spin. I love the way it looks.

@Bertman123 - Amazon prime video works, but you have to do a couple of workarounds. First, you have to reinstall hal and then you have disable Chrome's built in flash (if you are using Chrome). Check out this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...eo-4175418058/

I watch Doctor Who in Chrome on my Slackware laptop using Amazon prime and it works fine. I seem to recall that I grabbed the hal slackbuild and source from 13.37 and rebuilt it on my 14.0 box but I can't remember for sure. But I do know that hal is needed.

Hope this helps!

@chess: I did figure it out. I'm pretty sure it has to do with installing MLED on current. It ended up downgrading firefox, and then I could run firefox after installing a newer version of it. When I reinstalled my laptop (another user error) I installed from scratch and am now able to watch prime videos again. =) Couldn't get prime videos to play on chrome. Have they fixed that yet?

chess 06-24-2013 08:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bertman123 (Post 4977875)
@chess: I did figure it out. I'm pretty sure it has to do with installing MLED on current. It ended up downgrading firefox, and then I could run firefox after installing a newer version of it. When I reinstalled my laptop (another user error) I installed from scratch and am now able to watch prime videos again. =) Couldn't get prime videos to play on chrome. Have they fixed that yet?

Yep, as I mentioned, I watch Amazon Instant prime videos on Chrome all the time on my 14.0 laptop -- with hal installed and with the Chrome built-in ppapi flash player disabled (the pepper flash engine). Works great, no lag or skipping or anything. I'm going through the entire series of the new Doctor Who, in fact. :-)

Bertman123 06-25-2013 06:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chess (Post 4977903)
Yep, as I mentioned, I watch Amazon Instant prime videos on Chrome all the time on my 14.0 laptop -- with hal installed and with the Chrome built-in ppapi flash player disabled (the pepper flash engine). Works great, no lag or skipping or anything. I'm going through the entire series of the new Doctor Who, in fact. :-)

How do you disable ppapi? I haven't figured that out yet. I just finished the second half of the 7th season and the first season of torchwood. :-)

chess 06-25-2013 06:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bertman123 (Post 4978644)
How do you disable ppapi? I haven't figured that out yet. I just finished the second half of the 7th season and the first season of torchwood. :-)

Open up Chrome, enter
Code:

about:plugins
in the URL bar, then in the plugin page, first click the little + sign to the far right by "Details." Then scroll down and look for Flash. You will probably have 2 entries. One will have a location of "/opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so" and will be of the type "PPAPI (out-of-process)." The other one should have a location of "/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so" (or similar) and will be of the type NPAPI. You want to disable the first one so click the "Disable" link. Quit Chrome and restart. If you have done that and if you have hal installed, then Amazon prime video should work -- it does on my system.

I'm still with the 10th Doctor (I'm way behind) so no spoilers, please! :-)

Bertman123 06-25-2013 06:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chess (Post 4978663)
Open up Chrome, enter
Code:

about:plugins
in the URL bar, then in the plugin page, first click the little + sign to the far right by "Details." Then scroll down and look for Flash. You will probably have 2 entries. One will have a location of "/opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so" and will be of the type "PPAPI (out-of-process)." The other one should have a location of "/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so" (or similar) and will be of the type NPAPI. You want to disable the first one so click the "Disable" link. Quit Chrome and restart. If you have done that and if you have hal installed, then Amazon prime video should work -- it does on my system.

I'm still with the 10th Doctor (I'm way behind) so no spoilers, please! :-)

I'll give that a try, thanks.

10th doctor is awesome. Definitely worth watching. :-)


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