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Title: Help for New Linux Users?
Post by: JimH on October 15, 2013, 11:06:52 am

We've built MC on Debian so far.  It runs on a few other distros.  It would be nice if each camp had a thread that had basic setup instructions in the first post, then answered questions in the following ones.

We could make the popular ones sticky threads.

Any volunteers?  Or if you have a better idea, please suggest something else.

Thanks.

Title: Re: Help for New Linux Users?
Post by: Mike Noe on October 15, 2013, 11:19:34 am

I'd be happy to take on openSUSE.

A thread is okay, but perhaps a Wiki?

Title: Re: Help for New Linux Users?
Post by: RemyJ on October 15, 2013, 11:41:51 am

I can do Fedora.  I think a wiki would be good eventually (or in addition to the threads) but there's going to be a lot of conversation and troubleshooting going on in the short term that would probably be better served by the forum.

Title: Re: Help for New Linux Users?
Post by: zeltak on October 15, 2013, 01:45:30 pm

anyone volunteer to do an arch one  ;D

im to stupid to figure it out myself :)

z

Title: Re: Help for New Linux Users?
Post by: Awesome Donkey on October 15, 2013, 05:30:32 pm

Honestly, if you've figured out how to install Arch Linux (+10 cookies if you didn't use any tutorial), you probably already know what you're doing. :P Still, it shouldn't be too difficult to do with Pacman commands and all.

Title: Re: Help for New Linux Users?
Post by: JimH on October 15, 2013, 05:54:27 pm

Thanks, Remy and Mike.  That's a big help.

Title: Re: Help for New Linux Users?
Post by: zeltak on October 15, 2013, 11:16:16 pm

Quote from: Awesome Donkey on October 15, 2013, 05:30:32 pm

Honestly, if you've figured out how to install Arch Linux (+10 cookies if you didn't use any tutorial), you probably already know what you're doing. :P Still, it shouldn't be too difficult to do with Pacman commands and all.

hehe installing arch wasnt bad at all (they have an amazing wiki that guides you through the process). the main issue i think is that arch uses libcurl 4 while MC uses libcurl3. building and using lincurl3 can do all kinds of breakage i think so i dont know the exact way of handling this. Can jriver support/use libcurl4 alongside libcurl3 (again maybe a stupid question but im not a dev..). Are there other alternatives?

gotta say arch is really popular (i think at least in the top 5 distros) so i hope some other arch users here will give MC  a shot

Best

Z

Title: Re: Help for New Linux Users?
Post by: RemyJ on October 16, 2013, 09:54:29 am

Quote from: zeltak on October 15, 2013, 11:16:16 pm

Can jriver support/use libcurl4 alongside libcurl3 (again maybe a stupid question but im not a dev..). Are there other alternatives?

If you can give me the output of 'gcc -v' I can probably give you a script that'll build you a correct libcurl.

Title: Re: Help for New Linux Users?
Post by: zeltak on October 16, 2013, 12:53:11 pm

Thx RemyJ!

here it is:

zeltak@voices ~ ↳ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.8.1/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Configured with: /build/gcc-multilib/src/gcc-4.8-20130725/configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=https://bugs.archlinux.org/ --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,fortran,go,lto,objc,obj-c++ --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-clocale=gnu --disable-libstdcxx-pch --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-linker-build-id --enable-cloog-backend=isl --disable-cloog-version-check --enable-lto --enable-gold --enable-ld=default --enable-plugin --with-plugin-ld=ld.gold --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --disable-install-libiberty --enable-multilib --disable-libssp --disable-werror --enable-checking=release
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.8.1 20130725 (prerelease) (GCC)


best

Z