Comments for Dick Turpin's Arch Linux Blog

Comment on Gwibber Installation on Arch Linux by dick_turpin

dick_turpin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:20:57 +0000

Most of the bzr builds would not work for me or many other Arch users (Check the identi.ca replies to my dent regarding this post) hence in the spirit of Arch Linux ‘I did my own thing’.

If you’re a good sysadmin *you know* what files are lying around on your system. Relying on Pacman alone is foolhardy.

Comment on Gwibber Installation on Arch Linux by Ionut Biru

Ionut Biru — Thu, 06 May 2010 11:35:35 +0000

what’s wrong on using one of bzr builds from aur for gwibber? having files lying around on the file system without pacman know about is wrong.

Comment on Its my Birthday too! by Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:34:04 +0000

Have a good one!

Comment on Its my Birthday too! by securitybreach

securitybreach — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:35:03 +0000

Happy Birthday!!!

Comment on What a nice group by dick_turpin

dick_turpin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:56:34 +0000

I’m not sure where there is any harshness in the post? other than towards those who make people feel unwelcome on mailing lists, forums and IRC channels. For those situations I make no apologies at all and will not accept arrogant attitudes.

As for glowing, yes I am a bit. Rather than feeling shamed you should feel proud, you did a good thing and made another person happy

Comment on What a nice group by naeg

naeg — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:04:23 +0000

Hey,

Here is the Dev who talked to dick_turpin.
Some people said that this post is a lil bit “harsh”, so i wanted to write a statement, and make sure that it isn’t?

To your Surprise: You don’t have to be able to code anything, because we “just” port Arch Linux(We, as archmobile.org do not program any applications). The main thing we are doing is making Packages, which isn’t that hard really, configuring and testing.
And creating a PKGBUILD is like running ./configure make make install, just automated.

This Post sounds to me like you are totally glowing, i already feel a bit shamed because of all this laud.

Greetings, naeg

Comment on What a nice group by jelly

jelly — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:38:08 +0000

Hmm well i that’s almost kinda how i rolled into the archlinux gaming project, but they knew i had some AUR experience. If you only need to build packages then AUR experience is enough and if you start to like it you will learn coding and dig into it

Comment on Arch Mobile by securitybreach

securitybreach — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:15:50 +0000

Wow!!! I also have a n810 and I have a 16gb MiniSD. I would love to run Archlinux on this little machine. I will be following your blog for updated on getting Archlinux on the N810. If it is on the N800 then it should be easy to run on the N810 since most everything is the same except for the processor is faster, webcam, button placement, and memory slots. Other than that they are the same devices.

Thanks

Comment on Drop Box Fail by dick_turpin

dick_turpin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:32:05 +0000

Run /opt/dropbox/dropbox

“No such file or directory”

$ dropbox
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/dropbox”, line 50, in
enc = locale.getpreferredencoding()
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py”, line 549, in getpreferredencoding
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, “”)
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py”, line 513, in setlocale
return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

So its still broken

Comment on Drop Box Fail by Ashren

Ashren — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:42:36 +0000

Run /opt/dropbox/dropbox enter your email and password. Close program. Place files in /home/youruser/Dropbox and run /opt/dropbox/dropboxd.

If you want to run as a daemon place /opt/dropbox/dropboxd in your KDE-session startup.