August 2010 - Arch-announce - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-announce] True multilib for Arch Linux x86_64
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Thomas Bächler 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Thomas Bächler wrote: I am happy to announce the availability of the new multilib repository. At this time, it contains wine, skype and flashplugin. Furthermore, a multilib compiler is available. With the launch of the multilib repository all old 'lib32' packages are being removed from community - the core/extra/community repositories will be "pure 64 bit" again. If you want to use the new multilib packages (and most desktop or laptop users probably do), add the following lines to your pacman.conf: [multilib] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/508/

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[arch-announce] KDE SC 4.5.0 moved to [extra]
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Ronald van Haren 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Ronald van Haren wrote: KDE SC 4.5.0 has moved into the [extra] repository. Notable changes with respect to previous releases are: * kdepim has seen no new release, please continue to use version 4.4.5 * due to incompatibility with ruby 1.9, ruby kdebindings are not provided * webkit support in konqueror is provided by kwebkitpart * KDM is now started as the kdm user * upstream removed five translations: csb, mai, mk, si and tg The full upstream changelog is available [here][1]. Several users reported issues with kwin hanging when changing settings in the kdesettings dialog. So far this is only known to happen on some Intel and ATI cards with opengl compositing enabled. Possible workarounds include: * use xrender instead of opengl compositing * disable compositing * disable direct rendering under opengl options in the kdesettings menu [1]: http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.5/ URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/507/

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[arch-announce] Perl 5.12.1 moved to Core
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Kevin Piche 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

Kevin Piche wrote: The latest version of perl 5.12.1 has been moved to core. The perl package no longer implements versioned site_perl directories but the 5.10.1 directories remains for legacy packages for now. Anyone who custom builds perl modules into site_perl should rebuild them to use the proper directories. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/506/

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