What if I use installpkg with .xz packages?

ruario · 04-24-2014, 01:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Didier Spaier

then checked the result with an abacus.

Can't trust new technology that you don't understand. At least with an abacus you can see how it works!

ruario · 04-24-2014, 01:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Didier Spaier

This reminds me of a trip I made to China back in 1988. I went to a currency exchange office to change US $ in renminbin yuans. A first employee took the dollars, used a pocket calculator to compute how many yuans I should get, then checked the result with an abacus. She then handed over her results to a second employee who gave me the yuans. Oh, and that was the last time I traveled in a steam train. Nostalgy...

Did she use this by any chance?

Didier Spaier · 04-24-2014, 02:21 AM

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Originally Posted by ruario

Did she use this by any chance?

Hmm... That would have been an anachronism, as systemd was not invented yet.

stf92 · 04-24-2014, 03:39 AM

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Originally Posted by gnashley

What sort of pacakges have the .tar.xz suffix?? The only thing I can think of is that you might be trying to install packages meant for archlinux -which is not a good idea.

It was a typo. In post #1 it should say ".txz".

stf92 · 04-24-2014, 03:56 AM

The target user for the large software companies is the one who uses a computer to chat on the Internet, to write emails, the facebook and tweeter user. Those for which a computer is a means of exchanging photos. Look how pretty a cat I have! Smaller companies have to follow suit if they want to stay on business.

In the early days of IT, there were the programmers and the business companies. Both of them used computers. The programmers made the programs for the business companies. That was all, disregarding scientific applications.