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zidarsk8

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Registered: 2011-12-06

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[SOLVED] updating slim

Hi, I have a clean install of arch with Xfce and slim.

I am having problems with shutdown reboot and such stuff, and i have tried all ck-lauch-session things in .xinitrc and now i see that slim 1.3.3 doens't need that.

I would like to try if upgrading slim will work, but i have no idea how to upgrade it. The package says it's suppose to be 1.3.3-5
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort … =&limit=50

but my versions (after pacman -Syu and all) is still 1.3.2. How can I get the lastest package from the repository?

Thanks

Last edited by zidarsk8 (2012-06-24 09:32:00)

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: [SOLVED] updating slim

??  1.3.3-5 is in extra.

If it doesn't show up, your mirror must be out of date.

edit: to confirm, what does `pacman -Ss slim` show?

Last edited by Trilby (2012-06-23 20:19:29)

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axel668

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Registered: 2009-08-15

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Re: [SOLVED] updating slim

try exec startxfce4 with no ck- stuff,
and pacman -Syyu. If that doesn't help, you really need to pick another mirror, http://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/ will show you the ones that were recently updated

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zidarsk8

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Registered: 2011-12-06

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Re: [SOLVED] updating slim

I have only let the top three mirrors in my mirrorlist (http://mirror. us, de,nl .leaseweb.net/archlinux/...)  and pacmans says i have the new slim installed

$ pacman -Ss slim
extra/slim 1.3.3-5 [installed]

but this shows othervise.
$ slim -v
slim version 1.3.2

and upon pacmna Syyu i still get nothing to do ... cause it's up to date.

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: [SOLVED] updating slim

What does pacman -Qi slim show?

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anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

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Re: [SOLVED] updating slim

$ slim -v
slim version 1.3.2

Afaik, this is upstream bug (version number wasn't changed).

enifeder

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Registered: 2012-03-21

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Re: [SOLVED] updating slim

I am not sure what problems specifically you are having, but I have xfce with slim. Here is my xfce4 line in .xinitrc:

exec dbus-launch startxfce4 &

zidarsk8

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Registered: 2011-12-06

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Re: [SOLVED] updating slim

Afaik, this is upstream bug (version number wasn't changed).

Thanks. It would seem that you're right, and treating my slim as a 1.3.3 without the ck-... stuff works.

I never even thought that i might have the up to date version, with a wrong number. I was just treating it as some old thing and then it didn't work.

Thanks again