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Re: Opinion on Acer Tower 18L Desktop?

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kaukasoina3dore73js4@sci.fi (Petri Kaukasoina) wrote:

> Mike Spencer  <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
> 
>> I've been to LinuxQuestions before. Now, using the Firefox distributed in
>> Slack 15 32 bit, but now I get,
>>
>>    Your browser does not support the security verification required
>>    by www.linuxquestions.org. This can happen if your browser is
>>    either too old to support the latest security features...
>>
>> which is exactly the kind of crap I'm trying to deal with.  Neither
>> Firefox nor Seamonkey have a recent 32 bit release.
> 
> You should upgrade all packages from
> https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/
> 
> You will find the 32-bit browser packages there:
> mozilla-firefox-140.12.0esr-i686-1_slack15.0 and
> seamonkey-2.53.23-i686-1_slack15.0
> 
> The version numbers are the same as in the 64-bit -current.

That's curious because the Seamonkey website doesn't offer 2.53.23 in
32 bits.

Ell, okay, good!  Thats an improvement from SM 2.53.21 (that I downloaded
from Seamonkey and am running in the unpack dir) and a bigger improvement
in the (more frequently updated) FF 91.5.1 (Slack 15 distro).

Despite 25 years with Slackware, I've never used slackpkg. I need a
little reassurance or direction here.

The slackpkg manpage says:

   INSTRUCTIONS
   [...]
   ACTIONS
   [...]
      upgrade
         upgrade installs the most recent official version of the specified
         package(s).

but there's no example command to show correct syntax, lacking which
"the specified package(s)" is ambiguous. Is this right?

   + Download seamonkey-2.53.23-i686-1_slack15.0.txz in /path/to/

   + enoch% su

   + enoch% slackpkg upgrade /path/to/seamonkey-2.53.23-i686-1_slack15.0.txz 

to have the distro-installed Seamonkey replaced with 2.53.23?

I've always avoided commands that, run by root, promise to do a bunch
of system stuff when the documentation isn't tediously explicit.

Possibly revealing more ignorance than I should: I never thought to
look in a dir called "patches" for software packages.  I assumed that
would hold diff output for patching source.

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

When you're in your 80s, just being old is a half-time job. -- Stewart Brand

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    Re: Opinion on Acer Tower 18L Desktop? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2026-06-25 02:58 -0300
      Re: Opinion on Acer Tower 18L Desktop? kaukasoina3dore73js4@sci.fi (Petri Kaukasoina) - 2026-06-25 10:29 +0000
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            Re: Opinion on Acer Tower 18L Desktop? kaukasoina3dore73js4@sci.fi (Petri Kaukasoina) - 2026-06-26 07:34 +0000
      Re: Opinion on Acer Tower 18L Desktop? jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-06-25 10:21 -0400
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