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  1. NewPatrol NewPatrol

    hey guys?

    Sunday, 12-Aug-12 17:44:34 UTC from web
    1. mr. no mr. no

      @newpatrol Hey!

      Sunday, 12-Aug-12 17:45:28 UTC from web
      1. NewPatrol NewPatrol

        @nixter how goes the internet today?

        Sunday, 12-Aug-12 17:46:23 UTC from web
        1. mr. no mr. no

          @newpatrol Internet is quite fine, thank you. So, how are you doing yourself on the fine thing we call the internet?

          Sunday, 12-Aug-12 17:48:13 UTC from web
          1. NewPatrol NewPatrol

            @nixter imgud, kinda bored

            Sunday, 12-Aug-12 17:49:47 UTC from web
            1. mr. no mr. no

              @newpatrol Well, altleast you're ntbud. :D

              Sunday, 12-Aug-12 17:51:27 UTC from web
              1. NewPatrol NewPatrol

                @nixter ntbud?

                Sunday, 12-Aug-12 17:52:09 UTC from web
                1. mr. no mr. no

                  @newpatrol Not bad.

                  Sunday, 12-Aug-12 17:52:45 UTC from web
                  1. NewPatrol NewPatrol

                    @nixter yeah, not bad is gud

                    Sunday, 12-Aug-12 17:56:37 UTC from web
        2. Omni Omni

          @newpatrol I just felt my intelligence sink a bit, when I heard a user switched back from Linux to Windows for Hamachi, Java and Minecraft, while all those run just fine under Linux... >.>

          Sunday, 12-Aug-12 17:48:33 UTC from web
          1. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

            @omni Ugh!

            Sunday, 12-Aug-12 17:49:08 UTC from web
            1. Omni Omni

              @toksyuryel Okay, turns out this is what happened: he downloaded a .rpm from the Java website and converted it to .deb and had issues installing it under Ubuntu. This is wrong on several levels...

              Sunday, 12-Aug-12 17:50:12 UTC from web
              1. Toothpaste Pony! Toothpaste Pony!

                @omni ... I've barely touched Linux and I know better than that! :l

                Sunday, 12-Aug-12 17:50:36 UTC from web
              2. Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark

                @omni You can convert an RPM into a DEB in such a way that it works well enough to be confusing?

                Sunday, 12-Aug-12 17:54:29 UTC from web
                1. Omni Omni

                  @ceruleanspark Technically, converting between those formats should be possible with some easy tools, but normally you shouldn't have to do that at all.

                  Sunday, 12-Aug-12 17:55:59 UTC from web
                  1. Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark

                    @omni The obvious question is: Why does such a tool exist? It's like having a chainsaw that only cuts your hands off

                    Sunday, 12-Aug-12 17:56:51 UTC from web
                    1. Omni Omni

                      @ceruleanspark It exists because there are publishers which (mostly due to lack of knowledge) only release .deb or .rpm files.

                      Sunday, 12-Aug-12 17:57:44 UTC from web
                    2. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

                      @ceruleanspark The tools are meant to be used by package managers, not by users.

                      Sunday, 12-Aug-12 18:15:46 UTC from web
                      1. Omni Omni

                        @toksyuryel Derp, that's what I wanted to say (but failed at).

                        Sunday, 12-Aug-12 18:17:29 UTC from web
                2. Bit Shift Bit Shift

                  @ceruleanspark 'alien' works quite well for converting them, with the fairly major caveat that what distro X chose as build options for package A is not necessarily the same as distro Y chose for package A. The more packages you try to convert that way, the higher your chances of trying to run something which thinks you have a feature you don't have.

                  Sunday, 12-Aug-12 17:56:55 UTC from web
              3. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

                @omni waaaaaaat

                Sunday, 12-Aug-12 18:14:59 UTC from web
                1. Omni Omni

                  @toksyuryel I blame the Ubuntu repositories being small. If people can't find Minecraft in the "Software Centre" when they want to play it, they do stupid things.

                  Sunday, 12-Aug-12 18:15:51 UTC from web
          2. NewPatrol NewPatrol

            @omni i wish i knew how to create a facepalm face, or a table flip

            Sunday, 12-Aug-12 17:49:20 UTC from web