Re: [arch-general] Need to meet a tech guy

2012-09-13 Thread John K Pate
On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 08:52 -0300, Pedro Jordão wrote:
 2012/9/13 Arno Gaboury arnaud.gabo...@gmail.com
 
  Dear list,
 
  I'm a 47 years old trader, and the current financial crisis forces me to
  change my job.
  I am working on few business projects which involve good tech knowledges.
  I am not a tech guy, just a sophisticated user (proudly running an Arch
  box) whith tech as a hobby. I nedd to gather informtaions for the tech
  part of my projects and would appreciate to talk with someone involved
  in the web and software industry.
  I am leaving in Geneva, Switzerland, and if one of you is here too and
  can spend a litle time to meet and answer my questions, please PM.
 
  French speaking and knowledges in R language http://www.r-project.org
  would be a plus.
 
  Thank you.
 
 
 Hey, I'm not really a tech guy and don't speak French, but I use R pretty
 much every day. If you want any help you can ask me.

Same here :)

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Re: [arch-general] Pacman and Systemd's automount

2012-09-05 Thread John K Pate
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 12:11:27 +0100
Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

   Because you you have Check space enabled in pacman.conf  
  As well, I would suggest adding x-systemd.device-timeout to your
  fstab, so it doesn't hang forever.
 
 What's the reason for the default being hang forever?

I would imagine the reason is to avoid making assumptions about how
long it takes every device to come up. See also: halting problem. You
could argue that some long default is sensible, but this is not the
systemd development list...

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Re: [arch-general] systemd pulseaudio

2012-08-29 Thread John K Pate

   
 $ lscpi 
 bash: lscpi: command not found !!!
 
 I guess something must be wrong in my systemd settings.

The p comes before the c: lspci

lspci is unrelated to systemd.

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Re: [arch-general] [Bulk] Re: systemd pulseaudio

2012-08-29 Thread John K Pate

Don't you need to sign it too? I would
   
   ?
  
  Signing a package you build for yourself, knowing that it's a dummy,
  without a source and even if there should be a source, why signing this
  package. Is this an UEFI thingy?
  
  Sarcasm lost in translation ;).
  
  
 
 If you would be signing it locally for one system then I see why you
 think of sarcasm but otherwise pacman should be configured to stop on a
 non-signed package install.

You don't need sudo or su to sign a package with your own key, just
import your own (public) key into the pacman keyring as normal and
trust it.

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Re: [arch-general] systemd-readahead

2012-08-22 Thread John K Pate
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:27:07 +0100
Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello all,
 
 Does anyone know if system-readahead is supposed to work in our current 
 package?  For me, there is an error message during boot (something about an 
 event being too large to process), and there is no /.readahead file created.  
 systemctl also reports a non-zero exit status, but no log entry, and I can't 
 find the actual error message in the journal or dmesg.
 
 Does someone have this working?

I do, set up in the completely straightforward way:

# systemctl enable systemd-readahead-collect.service 
# systemctl enable systemd-readahead-replay.service

I didn't do anything special, and it works fine:

$ ls -l /.readahead 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17377 Aug 22 09:30 /.readahead

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Re: [arch-general] Think twice before moving to systemd

2012-08-16 Thread John K Pate
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:16:31 +0200
Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto
 denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote:
  This is so stupid that it's not even funny. You said that the problem
  was having CONFIG_HZ=300 and systemd. I said it is not, because I also
  have that situation and it works. So, your point is moot. I didn't say
  you don't have a problem, but just that it may be not related to
  CONFIG_HZ. I even sent you an article with ways on how to inspect the
  behaviour of systemd, which was completely ignored.

 My problem with CONFIG_HZ exists
 independently of whether you experience the problem yourself or not.

But it suggests that the problem is not *just* systemd and
CONFIG_HZ=300. I am, and many others are, running systemd with
CONFIG_HZ=300 fine. If you encountered a problem, there must be some
other underlying cause. A constructive response would work towards
finding and addressing the other underlying cause.

 No. You clearly don't understand how epistemology works, and I'm not
 going to explain it to you. 

irony of ironies...

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Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-16 Thread John K Pate

 
 It's actually more like a business. Often times businesses do polls or
 statistical information gathering in order to better server their
 customers.

yeah, but an open online poll is not statistics gathering, because you
don't have any way to ensure that you get a representative random
sample.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-15 Thread John K Pate
  /sbin/init from sysvinit alone is useless. What is your point?
 
 The rest are rather simple scripts (in the case of Arch Linux).
 
 And you are still ignoring the fact that systemd is anything but
 *simple*. How convenient to ignore that argument.

Those simple scripts are written in a Turing complete language for
doing whatever, while unit files are much more constrained in what they
can do and have been engineered to specify boot and daemon
dependencies. It's surprising to see people calling shell scripts
simple. They are common, not simple. The basic idea behind
systemd, as I understand it, *is* simple: specify only what needs to be
specified about the boot process and daemon start-up and management.

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Re: [arch-general] Polkit and systemd

2012-08-14 Thread John K Pate
On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:13:33 -0400
Manolo Martínez man...@austrohungaro.com wrote:

 Hello,
 
 If I'm not wrong, systemd makes consolekit superfluous. This is what I
 thought it took for polkit to work with systemd:
 
 * compile polkit with --enable-systemd
 * enable the systemd polkit service
 * that's it?
 
 But that's not it. Although polkit seems to work in console, it does not
 work in X. This is not terribly surprising, because I haven't done
 anything equivalent to launching my WM under ck-launch-session, as I
 used to do with consolekit. Is there an equivalent way of launching the
 window manager under systemd-acting-as-consolekit? 
 
 I should explain that I'm using no display manager, and I'd like to keep
 it this way, if at all possible.

Do you start your window manager with startx? I start fluxbox that way,
and switching to:

startx -- vt01

prevents a different virtual terminal from being started, and
everything works fine.


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Re: [arch-general] Glibc problems still failing

2012-07-16 Thread John K Pate

 and ..
 7-of-9:/home/pete/Documents # cd /
 7-of-9:/ # grep '^lib/' /var/lib/pacman/local/*/files | grep -v glibc
 /var/lib/pacman/local/ld-lsb-3-3/files:lib/
 /var/lib/pacman/local/ld-lsb-3-3/files:lib/ld-lsb.so.3

I had the same issue. updating ld-lsb (from the aur) will move the offending 
file to /usr/lib/.

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Re: [arch-general] Why Multiple Forums for different issues? Arch Linux/ARM?

2012-07-10 Thread John K Pate
 Now, what's the confusion here? People seem to think that you are part
 of the main Arch Linux project and are thus confused as to why you have
 separate forums.

I've only seen one person express confusion on this point... is this
really a problem?

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Re: [arch-general] Request of printing warnings at the end of pacman upgrade

2012-07-01 Thread John K Pate
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 00:56:24 +0800
BlissSam m13...@hotmail.com wrote:

 And what I also want to say, the message should not be printed too often 
 unless a really really important package is upgraded (such a bootloader or 
 something else).
 Or if the message is printed EVERY time upgrading the system, no one will 
 check the log.

Isn't this taken care of by just checking the news before upgrading, which you 
should do anyway?

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Re: [arch-general] locale variables

2012-06-24 Thread John K Pate

 It seems to me some lignes about French and euro are missing. Am I 
 right? Looking at the list etc/locale.pacnew, I was thinking adding 
 these locales :
 
 #fr_CH.UTF-8 UTF-8
 #fr_CH ISO-8859-1
 #fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8
 #fr_FR ISO-8859-1
 #fr_FR@euro ISO-8859-15
 
 Am I right to add all these locales?

 I understand I must run *$logal-gen* to add these modifications.
 
 What should I do with the locale.gen.pacnew ?? How can I update my 
 system correctly? I see that all locales are going to 
 */usr/share/i18n/locales*, and I guess locale.gen.pacnew will modify 
 this list, but I have no idea how to do that.

.pacnew files are created when pacman downloads a changed version of
some configuration file you have changed. Instead of trying to guess
what you want, pacman leaves your configuration file as-is and leaves
the new version of the config file in a .pacnew file. It's up to you to
merge the new default configuration file with the configuration file
you have changed locally. I use vimdiff to merge .pacnew files.
Once the files have been merged, you should delete the .pacnew file.
Read more here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacnew_and_Pacsave_Files

So you should merge /etc/locale.gen with /etc/locale.gen.pacnew, make
sure the relevant locales are uncommented, run locale-gen, and then
delete your .pacnew file.

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Re: [arch-general] a bit more script

2012-03-20 Thread John K Pate
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 08:15 +, pete wrote:
 Hi folks .
 
 Sorry to be a pain but i am still having a bit of fun (or not as the
 case may be)  with scripting here 
 
 thanks to previous help i have 
 
 for f in *jpg ; do echo a class=\highslide\ href=\$f\
 onclick=\return hs.expand(this)\img src=\thumbs/\$f\/a ;
 done  awardgallery.html
 
 which works well and generates 
 
 a class=highslide href=img_0004.jpg onclick=return
 hs.expand(this)img src=thumbs/img_0004.jpg/a
 
 The slight problem is in  this part img src=thumbs/img_0004.jpg
 thumbs is a sub dir off the main photos with thumbnails in it they are
 named  img_0004_s.jpg  and i can get it to pick this fact up that means
 i have an edit job every time  . help with mods please folks 

https://www.google.com/search?q=string+handling+bash


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Re: [arch-general] a bit more script

2012-03-20 Thread John K Pate

 Thanks to  John K Pate  but i dont at the moment have time to sit and
 digest heaps of variables i just need to solve this one problem  . 
 

You want to be able to change img_0004.jpg to img_0004_s.jpg, right?
You can use the built-in string replace functionality of bash to achieve
this (described in the first hit of that google search):

$ f=img_0004.jpg
$ echo $f
img_0004.jpg
$ echo ${f/.jpg/_s.jpg}
img_0004_s.jpg

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Re: [arch-general] Current PKGBUILD that pulls directly from git? [SOLVED]

2012-02-21 Thread John K Pate

 
 for i in $(find /var/abs -name PKGBUILD); do if grep git clone $i; then 
 echo 
 found in $i; fi; done
 
 was the ticket!

grep -l git clone /var/abs/*/*/PKGBUILD

or if you're uncertain about the directory structure

find /var/abs/ -name PKGBUILD -exec grep -l git clone {} \;

are a bit more straightforward

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Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD help

2012-01-28 Thread John K Pate

 Yes been there but all that happens is i get a load of failed deps  one of 
 which it seems cannot be satisfied   and all 32 bit stuff this is a 64 bit  
 the 
 PKGBUILD mentions 64 bit but goes for 32 bit the fails  also complains about 
 google-earth.install is missing  so i dont know where to look next  

It installs 32-bit libraries because the google-earth binary is 32-bit.
You can still run 32-bit programs on a 64-bit system. I've got a 64-bit
system and it's installed and runs fine.

The missing dependency is probably ld-lsb, which you have to get from
the AUR and install prior to installing google-earth.

If it is complaining about a missing google-earth.install, probably you
downloaded just the PKGBUILD. Download and extract the full tarball and
you'll have google-earth.install.

I should point out that all of this information is available at:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR

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Re: [arch-general] Google earth

2012-01-28 Thread John K Pate
On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 13:14 +, Peter G Nikolic wrote:
 Hi 
 
 Does anyone have a method of getting google earth to work i HAVE tried the 
 stuff in AUR it fails completely the packages it complains about are all out 
 of 
 date and have so many deps that are also out of date  it is like chasing your 
 own tail up your own backside
 
 I have looked at the AUR wiki  and found nothing of relevance to getting a 
 working google earth   

We can't help you without any error messages. As I told you before, it
works fine on my machine. The AUR package is fine.

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Re: [arch-general] tp_smapi - LENOVO g470

2012-01-18 Thread John K Pate
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 12:13 -0300, Paulo Roberto P. Evangelista wrote:
 Same error
 
 [paulo@G470 tp_smapi]$ makepkg -sf
snip
 root@G470 tp_smapi]# modprobe tp_smapi
 FATAL: Error inserting tp_smapi
 (/lib/modules/3.1.9-2-ARCH/extramodules/tp_smapi.ko.gz): No such
 device
 [root@G470 tp_smapi]#

did you actually install (pacman -U) the rebuilt version?

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Re: [arch-general] [Non-Bulk] Re: Top Posting Revisited

2011-12-16 Thread John K Pate
On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 16:59 +0100, Ralf Madorf wrote:
 On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 15:33 +, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
  [snip] If you ban someone they soon
  realise and could use a different email. [snip]
 
 +1
 
 If somebody does something bad, friendly [off-list] explain this person
 that (s)he might should reconsider the style. If this person ignore your
 inquiry simply use a spam filter.

So, after today, anybody who top-posts will get flooded with private
emails pointing it out? Maybe that would work...

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Re: [arch-general] How do I uncomment a locale?

2011-12-15 Thread John K Pate
 What is the difference between en_GB, en_US and en_AU ? Is the motd
 updated to tell you Good morning, Sir, Hi guy or Good day, mate?

man 7 locale

This affects stuff like spelling differences, dd/mm/ or mm/dd/
dates, 12 hour or 24 hour clocks.

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Re: [arch-general] Vim with X

2011-11-15 Thread John K Pate
On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 22:58 +0100, Manolo Martínez wrote:
 On 11/15/11 at 11:57pm, Ray Rashif wrote:
  On 15 November 2011 22:00, Manolo Martínez man...@austrohungaro.com wrote:
  The policy had already been revised when the split was made to have
  vim and gvim. Vim had to become lightweight as many people were
  complaining about its bulk.
  
  
 Thanks for the explanation, Ray. I guess I should learn to make do without
 copying among X programs, as those people doubtlessly do.

ctrl-ins, shift-ins, middle-click should all still work. At least they
do for me, and I don't have gvim installed. Or do I have something else
installed that makes them work?

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Re: [arch-general] A question about installing Arch

2011-10-15 Thread John K Pate
On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 00:33 +0200, Christian wrote:
 Hi all,
 Thanks a lot for your replies.
 I have the network installation CD of Arch here so then, what you are saying 
 is that it should download the old packages and then I just upgrade the 
 system with pacman after it has installed?

Yes. Refer to http://www.archlinux.org/news/ and the forum if you run
into any snags, but this should work fine.

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Re: [arch-general] Can't install e4rat from AUR: pacman fails to install missing dependencies

2011-10-09 Thread John K Pate

 error: target not found: audit
 == ERROR: 'pacman' failed to install missing dependencies.
 
 I performed a search with pacman -Ss, and audit seems not to be in the
 repos. Has anyone encountered this problem yet?

It's in the AUR. pacman -Ss searches only the official repositories.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Installation of libreoffice

2011-08-03 Thread John K Pate
On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 15:27 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote:
 Am Wed, 3 Aug 2011 21:10:53 +0800
 schrieb Auguste Pop augu...@gmail.com:
 
  i thought there was a choosing phase before actually install a
  language pack when upgrading. the default choice is alphabetically the
  first, which may caused the problem you just depicted.
 
 If you install libreoffice-common for the first time
 libreoffice-langpack is installed as a dependency and then you get the
 chooser, but not if you upgrade libreoffice with pacman -Syu.

Are you sure? I just upgraded last night with pacman -Syu and got the
language pack chooser. After pacman -S libreoffice-impress, I'm able to
work on my slides fine.

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Re: [arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

2011-06-30 Thread John K Pate

 I do have a few AUR packages on my system, but no breakages from 
 anything other than ptal-init as reported.

I had a breakage (with the same error message) with rxvt-unicode-chinese
from the AUR, but it was resolved upon upgrading to the new version. I
don't know if the fix was due to recompiling or the new version,
however.

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Re: [arch-general] Anybody else have problems with the new Nvidia drivers (275.09.07-1)

2011-06-17 Thread John K Pate
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 17:09 -0500, Yaro Kasear wrote:
 On Friday, June 17, 2011 04:10:01 PM Richard Schütz wrote:
  The new driver really seems to have a major problem. I figured out that
  you just need an image with 2047px width to screw up the driver.
  
  
  ATTENTION: This can crash your X server and corrupt memory!
  
  Example: [1], an otherwise harmless picture. Every picture with the same
  width will work, too. I could trigger the bug at least with Firefox,
  Midori, Epiphany and EOG. It looks like some applications like Chromium
  alter the size, so they don't trigger it.
  
  
  [1] http://www.abload.de/img/nvbugy7cd.jpg
 
 Are we sure ths is a bug with the nVidia driver? Can someone load that image 
 who isn't using it?
 

Loads fine for me in firefox and midori, using intel driver.

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[arch-general] pacman tries to install nvidia drivers?

2011-06-08 Thread John K Pate
Hello all,

I don't have an nvidia graphics card:

$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series
Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)

Yet when I try to update (with -Syyu just to be sure), I get:

$ sudo pacman -Syyu
:: Synchronising package databases...
 core
37.9K   96.0K/s 00:00:00
[##]
100%
 extra
469.7K  855.7K/s 00:00:01
[##]
100%
 community
439.4K3.6M/s 00:00:00
[##]
100%
 multilib
25.0K  888.7K/s 00:00:00
[##]
100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: lib32-gcc-libs will be installed before its gcc-libs-multilib
dependency
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: nvidia-utils and libgl are in conflict. Remove libgl? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: intel-dri: requires libgl=7.10.2


Why does pacman try to install nvidia-utils for me? I have intel-dri
installed and my graphics work fine. I assume the dependency cycle is
unrelated...

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Re: [arch-general] pacman tries to install nvidia drivers?

2011-06-08 Thread John K Pate

 Probably this bug https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24608

Oh yes, it's exactly that. I removed luxrender (which I've ended up not
using) and the update goes through fine.

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Re: [arch-general] libre office java support

2011-04-13 Thread John K Pate
 
  libreoffice depends on java-runtime, which is no real package. 
  java-runtine is provided by the openjdk6 and jre package, so it does 
  not matter which you use.
 
 I suspected as much when both packages seemed to work :-)
 but can we change the Libre Office packages to depend upon JRE instead ?
 Openjdk6 is missing a lot of functionality such as browser support, JRE 
 would be a better choice..

As has been said before, they only depend on java-runtime. Install
whatever java-runtime you like, and you're set. Libreoffice packages do
not specifically rely on openjdk, only java-runtime.

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Re: [arch-general] eigen version

2011-03-24 Thread John K Pate

   Check the status of your mirror 
 http://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/
   and switch to a good mirror and pacman -Syyu
  
  Well, eigen-2.0.15-1 does is the latest packaged version in [extra].
  Are you sure you haven't installed eigen-3.0.0-1 from another source?
 
 pacman -Qi eigen gives what's bellow. I can't find a way to tell me the 
 source of the package.

try grep ^Server /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist | head -n 1 ;)

As noted above, you just need to pick a more up-to-date mirror.


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Re: [arch-general] When will Arch switch to Systemd

2011-01-21 Thread John K Pate

  http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0K=systemddo_Search=Go
 
 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0K=systemd-arch-units-gitdo_Search=Go
 

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40419

They just didn't put -git on the end, but it is a git package

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Re: [arch-general] wicd startup issues

2010-11-17 Thread John K Pate
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 13:50 -0500, Samuel Baldwin wrote:
 After a fresh install of wicd (I pacman -Sy'd yesterday), it won't
 seem to start; not really sure what to do here.

Did you pacman -Sy or pacman -Syu? Probably has to do with the move
to python3.

John

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Re: [arch-general] wicd startup issues

2010-11-17 Thread John K Pate
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 14:02 -0500, Samuel Baldwin wrote:
 Also, when I run `python3' and type 'import wicd' I still get the same
 error, so I'm sceptical of explaining it away as merely python3,
 unless I'm missing something.

Try it with `python2'. `wicd' expects python2, and `python' now calls
`python3'.

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Re: [arch-general] dualboot?

2010-05-27 Thread John K Pate

On Thu, 27 May 2010, Jeroen Op 't Eynde wrote:

On Thu, 27 May 2010 18:48:38 +0200, Nilesh Govindarajan li...@itech7.com 
wrote:


On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:12 PM, David Lowe da_legit_du...@yahoo.com 
wrote:
 I'm new to Arch Linux  Linux in general, so please excuse any newbie 
 questions...
 Can the Arch Linux install do a dualboot installation?  I've read some 
 documentation

 and it seems to be iffy on this point.
 Also, why are most Linux users and programmers so obsessed with Python?
 I'd much rather download Euphoria.  http://www.rapideuphoria.com
 If it's a requirement that a Python runtime be on the system, then I'd 
 rather not install

 at all.


Python is an opensource language used by many applications. You may
have to install it while installing some desktop environment.
As for dual boot, any Linux can be dual booted. If you already have
some other Linux, you just need to add the entry for the partiton
which contains the Arch kernel into Grub.



Maybe just compare the websites... obviously Python wins! :)

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At any rate, there's no reason not to install both euphoria and python. If 
you're planning on sticking with a distribution like Arch that requires 
you to `look under the hood', you should get used to working with a 
variety of programming languages. There's no single language which is 
perfect for every job.


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