No, they use stable versions. Also, if you use Gnome 3, wait until it is fully finished and stable. The current version conflicts harshly with Ubuntu, and the one in the repos is ancient.
[QUOTE=kukiric;29156184]Ubuntu repositories have a nasty tendence of keeping older versions of everything, but if you really need the latest version of something, you can search for a ppa in launchpad or download it from it's site and compile from source.
It downloads the same versions as doing an apt-get or using Synaptic, if that's what you're asking.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;29156221]No, they use stable versions. Also, if you use Gnome 3, wait until it is fully finished and stable. The current version conflicts harshly with Ubuntu, and the one in the repos is ancient.[/QUOTE]
Argh, who do I listen to?
[editline]13th April 2011[/editline]
So, is there a Netbeans IDE and Java PPA?
[editline]13th April 2011[/editline]
Official, preferably.
[QUOTE=faillord adam;29156453]Argh, who do I listen to?[/QUOTE]
We're both right. We both said that the repos use old, stable versions so if you want the latest use a ppa/compile from source. If you want to risk it, go ahead with the ppa. Just don't be surprised if something fails miserably.
Trying to boot into a live Arch distro off of my thumb drive. I didn't entirely know what I was doing when I set up the drive, and now my computer is just sitting at a black screen with a flashing cursor.
Is Arch just being reeeaaally slow to boot up or is something fucked?
I'm having issues with xargs.
What happens is that if I run a command with xargs and said command is interactive (reads form stdin and waits for input) it will just stop at the input part and return me to shell.
Here's the command I'm trying to run:
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[root@boris-linuxPC ~]# pacman -Qk | sed -n 's/warning: \([a-zA-Z][0-9a-zA-Z_-]*\):.*/\1/p' | uniq | xargs -rt pacman -S
pacman -S cifs-utils
warning: cifs-utils-4.9-2 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (1): cifs-utils-4.9-2
Total Download Size: 0.00 MB
Total Installed Size: 0.11 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] [root@boris-linuxPC ~]#
[/code]
The problem is that it won't allow me to type 'y' and press enter. It'll just drop me to shell. How can I fix this?
xargs has never really worked properly for me. Perhaps this might work?
[code]pacman -S $(pacman -Qk | sed -n 's/warning: \([a-zA-Z][0-9a-zA-Z_-]*\):.*/\1/p' | uniq)[/code]
[QUOTE=Nipa;29163586]xargs has never really worked properly for me. Perhaps this might work?
[code]pacman -S $(pacman -Qk | sed -n 's/warning: \([a-zA-Z][0-9a-zA-Z_-]*\):.*/\1/p' | uniq)[/code][/QUOTE]
I'd split that in to 2 commands, otherwise you could end up re-installing dependencies as explicit.
Re-install explicit packages:
[code]pacman -S $(pacman -Qk | sed -n 's/warning: \([a-zA-Z][0-9a-zA-Z_-]*\):.*/\1/p' | uniq | grep "`pacman -Qeq`")[/code]
Re-install dependencies:
[code]pacman --asdep -S $(pacman -Qk | sed -n 's/warning: \([a-zA-Z][0-9a-zA-Z_-]*\):.*/\1/p' | uniq | grep "`pacman -Qdq`")[/code]
Holy shit Arch is awesome. I thought my netbook was just slow, but everything is faster now. I never realized how much overhead I was getting from Ubuntu.
So far my attempt to merge Xfce and Awesome have not gone well...
[QUOTE=IpHa;29181001]So far my attempt to merge Xfce and Awesome have not gone well...[/QUOTE]
:psyduck:
What do you mean by this? The Xfce panels in Awesome? The Xfce base, but tiling? I MUST KNOW.
[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;29181338]:psyduck:
What do you mean by this? The Xfce panels in Awesome? The Xfce base, but tiling? I MUST KNOW.[/QUOTE]
Both, neither worked.
Running just the xfce4-panel in awesome kinda worked, but most applets didn't work right and running awesome inside a whole xfce session made the applets work great, but that was about it.
Can I somehow configure my Diamondback 3G? It has 2 buttons on both sides.
Mouse 4 is on the left side and Mouse 5 is on the right side.
Would be nice if Mouse 5 was on the left side also.
I'm using Ubuntu.
[QUOTE=IpHa;29181666]Both, neither worked.
Running just the xfce4-panel in awesome kinda worked, but most applets didn't work right and running awesome inside a whole xfce session made the applets work great, but that was about it.[/QUOTE]
might want to try Awesome with fbpanel
Getting tired of fixing things on my Mom's Vista laptop, I decided to show her Ubuntu before she puts the money down for a Mac.
If she likes it she'll save a pretty penny. Because her computer is actually quite nice, it's just been having a lot of weird Windows-related issues lately.
[QUOTE=handler;29184800]Can I somehow configure my Diamondback 3G? It has 2 buttons on both sides.
Mouse 4 is on the left side and Mouse 5 is on the right side.
Would be nice if Mouse 5 was on the left side also.
I'm using Ubuntu.[/QUOTE]
A bit of Googleing sure gets you a long way.
[url]https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ManyButtonsMouseHowto[/url]
Need some help trying to get wireless working on my newly dual booted Arch Linux installation, from a dell laptop with no ethernet connection. About ready to rip my brains out.
My wireless card is a broadcom, and requires the wl driver in the AUR but whenever I try to build them it comes up with a "no target specified" or "no makefile found" error or some shit even though I've went back and forth from Windows and back to Arch to download all the dependencies and whatnot, mount my windows partition, copy them over, and install them via pacman. Even if I was plugged into the internet I would have to go through an almost identical process to have wireless but it just doesn't work. Keep in mind I'm not using a DE yet either.
This is horseshit. If Arch actually didn't take millions of years to roll out a new ISO I could be using the drivers which are now built-into the kernel instead of going through this garbage. Is there any easier way to do this? Is there an already built version I can use?
Try ndiswrapper?
[QUOTE=Pery;29211129]Try ndiswrapper?[/QUOTE]
no .inf file
[QUOTE=Sonicfan574;29210986]
This is horseshit. If Arch actually didn't take millions of years to roll out a new ISO I could be using the drivers which are now built-into the kernel instead of going through this garbage.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://cdn1.knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/5545/original/OpoQQ.jpg?1302279173[/img]
No, but really, look up rolling release.
[QUOTE=Ca5bah;29211252][img_thumb]http://cdn1.knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/5545/original/OpoQQ.jpg?1302279173[/img_thumb]
No, but really, look up rolling release.[/QUOTE]
Rolling release doesn't mean shit here, I can't get to the updates because I can't get internet set up. The iso image provided is almost a year old.
[QUOTE=Ca5bah;29211445][url]http://www.archlinux.org/iso/2010.05/archlinux-2010.05-core-i686.iso.torrent[/url][/QUOTE]
You clearly aren't reading my posts.
[QUOTE=Sonicfan574;29211497]You clearly aren't reading my posts.[/QUOTE]
You clearly can't configure Arch.
[QUOTE=Ca5bah;29211593]You clearly can't configure Arch.[/QUOTE]
You linked me to an 11-month-old iso which I have used to install my system, right after telling me to look up the term "rolling release" which is irrelevant here because I can't update without internet access. The version of the Linux kernel with broadcom drivers included came after that build of Arch, hence why I was asking for a new build and raging about the process to get wireless working on Arch right now.
If you don't understand what someone's saying, at least tell them that.
[url]http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/04/16/0239213/5-Out-of-11-Crashed-Unity-In-Canonicals-Study[/url]
Crash and burn
[QUOTE=nikomo;29213261][url]http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/04/16/0239213/5-Out-of-11-Crashed-Unity-In-Canonicals-Study[/url]
Crash and burn[/QUOTE]
Made me laugh. Gnome 3 and unity are still way too buggy to be released.
Chill the fuck out every one. Sonicfan what's your card (just wanna be sure)
Run the following:
[Code]
lspci
lsusb
lsmod
dmesg | grep -i firmware
[/code]
I just wanna be sure that you'e installing the right module . Also it will allow me to look it up myself.
If i were to make a guess you're probably missing dependencies
[QUOTE=Sonicfan574;29210986]Need some help trying to get wireless working on my newly dual booted Arch Linux installation, from a dell laptop with no ethernet connection. About ready to rip my brains out.
My wireless card is a broadcom, and requires the wl driver in the AUR but whenever I try to build them it comes up with a "no target specified" or "no makefile found" error or some shit even though I've went back and forth from Windows and back to Arch to download all the dependencies and whatnot, mount my windows partition, copy them over, and install them via pacman. Even if I was plugged into the internet I would have to go through an almost identical process to have wireless but it just doesn't work. Keep in mind I'm not using a DE yet either.
This is horseshit. If Arch actually didn't take millions of years to roll out a new ISO I could be using the drivers which are now built-into the kernel instead of going through this garbage. Is there any easier way to do this? Is there an already built version I can use?[/QUOTE]
There are unofficial releases every few months, this one uses kernel version 2.6.37: [url]https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=113741[/url]
Just switched my kernel to use the performance CPU fequency governor rather than ondemand. Ondemand seemed kind of wonky. Like I start up a 3D game then the cpu frequncy would only go up to 1.9ghz rather than 2.6ghz. And after ending the game it wouldn't scale back down, so I'm just like fuck it I'll let it run at 2.6ghz all the time.
Probably could have put more effort into figuring out ondemand though.
[editline]16th April 2011[/editline]
Nevermind, I'm gonna switch back to ondemand. I think I un-wonkified it by undoing my stupid and pointless overclock I did like a year ago since 2.8ghz isn't one of the scaling options.
I just timed a kernel compile with performance and ondemand and the results are basically the same.
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performance:
make -j5 435.59s user 46.82s system 339% cpu 2:22.27 total
ondemand:
make -j5 433.27s user 46.56s system 367% cpu 2:10.41 total
[/code]
[editline]16th April 2011[/editline]
And I was intermittently checking /proc/cpuinfo for the frequencies and it would take all of my cores up to 2.6ghz and back down to 800mhz after.
[editline]16th April 2011[/editline]
Moral of the story. Overclocks are stupid and pointless, don't bother ricers.
[QUOTE=Sonicfan574;29210986]Need some help trying to get wireless working on my newly dual booted Arch Linux installation, from a dell laptop with no ethernet connection. About ready to rip my brains out.
My wireless card is a broadcom, and requires the wl driver in the AUR but whenever I try to build them it comes up with a "no target specified" or "no makefile found" error or some shit even though I've went back and forth from Windows and back to Arch to download all the dependencies and whatnot, mount my windows partition, copy them over, and install them via pacman. Even if I was plugged into the internet I would have to go through an almost identical process to have wireless but it just doesn't work. Keep in mind I'm not using a DE yet either.
This is horseshit. If Arch actually didn't take millions of years to roll out a new ISO I could be using the drivers which are now built-into the kernel instead of going through this garbage. Is there any easier way to do this? Is there an already built version I can use?[/QUOTE]
Try just grabbing the kernel packages from an up-to-date repository?
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