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For Debian Squeeze and newer we now have:-

Snowglobe 1.4-4
Snowglobe2 2.0.1-5

For Ubuntu Lucid we have :-
Snowglobe 1.4-4
and still in the cooker, cooking – Snowglobe2 2.0.1-5

Debian packages have been tested and appear to be ok, no reports back on the Ubuntu package, please let me know if its all still working for you, here or @robincornelius

I’m now building the -11 version for Debian as we speak, i’ve upset the Ubuntu users twice in two days, you Debian users must be feeling left out, so now its time for your upset too;-)

I’ve tested this clearing out by debconf databases and it still works, no missing entries (which is what was tripping the debs before) as i had not managed to copy the templates file into the DEBIAN/ binary staging area with the correct file name, it would run under test directly from the script (adding a entry to the database) then appear to work directly from the deb. Clearing the debconf database repro’d the issue for me on -10. Also did a complete package build and install and still was good so its been sent to the autobuilder for Debian, assuming this goes ok this time, i’ll fire ubuntu builds to launchpad in the morning now.

The Debian autobuilder is kind of slow, takes about 2.5 h for both i386 and amd64 and upload to apt.byteme.org.uk so i’ll go to bed and leave it running

Annoying as it is for a simple packaging mistake, i’ve identifed the cause of the -9 failure, the preinst.template file was missing one of its template entries causing install to abort. Just fired the new -10 deb to lauchpad, and will kick the local Debian autobuilder off in a moment as well…

Fingers crossed this time

launchpad’s build farm has processed the updated snowglobe package 1.3.1-9 and the i386 build is complete the amd64 build is currently in the build queue. I’ve re-enabled the Ubuntu download page, the Debian packages are building on my autobuilder but will also probably be another couple of hours

Looks like very good progress has been made on the Third party Viewer Policy, a new faq is up http://wiki.secondlife.com/w/index.php?title=Linden_Lab_Official:Third_Party_Policy_and_Viewer_Directory_FAQ

Our builds here are progressing as well, i’ve made a number of cosmetic changes to address issues such as

• Displaying the appropriate messages to the user on first install as per the TVP
• custom channels
• custom branded window title
• custom information in Help->About window
• use of a different user location to ~/.secondlife to avoid _any_ possible damage conflict to an offical viewer

Git is upto date with these changes, and binaries and the reopening of the download pages should be fairly soon as time and testing permits.

The site will be in a state of transition for at least a few more days, I think i’ve beaten WordPress in to some kind of submission and now need to flesh out all the pages once more. Before I can let the download pages loose again I need to update the viewer packages to ensure that the Terms of Service are displayed to a user who has never logged on with this viewer before, I need to modify Help About a little too to make it clear that the builds here are not official Linden Labs builds, and I also need to add to the installer something that displays my privacy policy.

Due to policy changes at the “lab” I have taken the opportunity to update the website, please bare with us during this transition period.  During this time I am still working on Snowglobe 2.0 as well as the 1.3 release and committing to LL SVN. Once the dust settles on the policy changes I will see what needs doing to ensure we still have Debian and Ubuntu packages of the viewer.