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Following this article, I patched APF for use on Ubuntu and ArchLinux.

Hi guys! I’m sorry for the delay in the update in this matter but lately I had very little time for anything on the side. Anyway, I finally got around to it.

Some notes first:

• Since the first patch, I started working with ArchLinux (which is AWESOME) so I made a patch for it too.
• It seems that starting with version 0.9.6-3 APF completely replaced Antidos with something (internal) called RAB (we’ll see how that goes).

• Also I decided (as you’ll notice below) to also host the APF original tar.gz on my server as well the full patched versions, so that in the future, when a new version of APF is released the patches do not simply break out of the blue (since on the APF site there is no release history; even the downloadable file isn’t versioned, it’s just called apf-current.tar.gz which is confusing).
• I guess I could look into making patches for other Linux distros using qemu virtual machines. If you want that just say so and I’ll try.

So, here they are in all their glory (latest supported APF version comes first):

APF version 0.9.6-3 (download original APF):

• Ubuntu (tested on Gutsy but should work on most of them)
  Patch: apf-0.9.6-3-ubuntu.patch
  Patched APF: apf-0.9.6-3-ubuntu.tar.gz (this is what you sould download)
• ArchLinux (tested on Don’t Panic but should work on all versions - at least starting from Core Dump)
  Patch: apf-0.9.6-3-archlinux.patch
  Patched APF: apf-0.9.6-3-archlinux.tar.gz (this is what you sould download)

APF version 0.9.6-2 (I no longer have this version; only the patch):

• Ubuntu (tested on Gutsy but should work on most of them)
  Patch: apf-0.9.6-3-ubuntu.patch

Acknowledgments: Kudos to Cezar Spatariu for giving me some good tips to improve the patches :).

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