On Thursday 11 February 2010 18:50:46 Ionut Biru wrote:

fire up a browser and read the news related to KDE 4.4. or subscribe to arch-announce ;)

-- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 18:54 +0100, Andrea Scarpino wrote:

On Thursday 11 February 2010 18:50:46 Ionut Biru wrote:

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fire up a browser and read the news related to KDE 4.4. or subscribe to arch-announce ;)

Isn't [arch-announce] dead for the longest time? I remember getting 1 month worth of mails at a time. Obviously a month late.

2010/2/11 Ng Oon-Ee :

On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 18:54 +0100, Andrea Scarpino wrote:

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On Thursday 11 February 2010 18:50:46 Ionut Biru wrote:

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fire up a browser and read the news related to KDE 4.4. or subscribe to arch-announce ;)

Isn't [arch-announce] dead for the longest time? I remember getting 1 month worth of mails at a time. Obviously a month late.

It was broken for a while. rss2email went screwey. I ended up deleting the data file and re-adding the feed, and it suddenly worked again /shrug

kurrata wrote:

On 02/11/10 19:47, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

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See this guys - http://dpaste.com/157512/ All of you're facing the same ? If not, what's the fix ? After some fighting i did thi "pacman -S qt kdelibs phonon" After that installed i could start to upgrade rest of the system...i hope it wont break when its finished

Thanks, same here. This: pacman -Sy --asdeps qt would produce: error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: qtscriptgenerator: requires phonon Now it running fine. If it breaks my system, no big deal. I wanted to switch to Arch32 anyway..... 64bit support for proprietary software, on Linux, is disgustingly bad. -- John I have something to hide, my privacy, and I am not a terrorist. http://www.pp-international.net/

On 02/20/2010 04:23 AM, John Black wrote:

64bit support for proprietary software, on Linux, is disgustingly bad.

Why not just install the 32 bit version then? 64 bit Linux can run 32 bit programs..

On 02/20/2010 04:03 PM, Heiko Baums wrote:

Am Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:25:11 -0700 schrieb Brendan Long :

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Why not just install the 32 bit version then? 64 bit Linux can run 32 bit programs..

No, it can't. This is only possible with multilib (lib32-*) support. So you need to install every library twice to be able to run 32 bit software.

Greetings, Heiko

Having the 32 bit libraries as well is what I meant. You don't need all of the 32 bit libraries, just the ones your propriety software needs (and that generally won't take up that much disk space). What I don't understand is why propriety software for Linux isn't just always released as a monolithic binary with no depends..

On Sunday 21 February 2010 04:35:51 Heiko Baums wrote:

Btw., I don't see any good reasons why developers of proprietary software couldn't build x86_64 packages. They should only need to compile their software a second time.

Assuming the software is 64 bit clean. Thats a lot to assume! -- Regards Shridhar

On 02/25/2010 02:24 AM, John Black wrote:

I can not use TeamSpeak (32bit) and asking for 64 did nothing, this has been requested for years. Hopefully the new beta will make a difference. Skype will not work either and I am sure plenty of people have requested a 64bit version but what do they care.

I have bin32-teamspeak2 and bin32-skype (both AUR packages) installed and working now on my Athlon64... I did have a helluva time trying to get both of these working with pulseaudio installed (microphone issues) , but once I went back to alsa/dmix they worked fine.