setting up Linux for LiveCode and other dev questions

[Richmond]

On 04/13/2013 01:59 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Colin Holgate wrote:
>> Thanks. I'm not sure why I thought I was getting a 64 bit version. It 
>> automatically gave me the one I thought I wanted.
>>
>> I found these instructions somewhere:
>>
>> sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
>> That fixed things, LiveCode installed from the downloads folder just 
>> fine. I did do the register stage, given there was no choice, and it 
>> seemed to take ok.

"given there was no choice" . . . Um.

I thought OSS was all about choice.

>
> Glad to see you got that worked out.  Using LC on Ubuntu is 
> occasionally annoying, but in general a very good time (as with most 
> things on Ubuntu, but then again I'm a fan boy <g>).
>
> apt-get is a wonderful tool, and while having to use it for some of 
> the more specialized packages out there (most are in the Ubuntu 
> Software Center which is of course a GUI) was annoying for me at 
> first, once you get the hang of it it's kinda fun.
>
> For me, I began to enjoy apt-get so much that I started pondering 
> whether we should make a similar tool to run from the LC Message Box 
> for handling plugins.
>
> If I'm not the only one for whom that sounds like fun, drop me a note 
> and maybe we can put it together.
>
> -- 
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World
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