Removing arch == really dumb.
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/bin/arch command missing in Gutsy and Hardy
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If Ubuntu wants to enter the datacentre, in my opinion such things must be
avoided.
When a company runs applications on a platform (being it server or desktop) the
last thing they want to do is finding in the middle of a project that they have
to spend time (thus money) in working around such th
I have just encountered this bug while attempting to install IDL, a
visualisation and analysis package commonly used by scientists and
engineers. It seems extremely sensible to add a 2-line script to a
package in order to fix this, given the benefits in terms of backwards
compatibility and user exp
Daniel, you're absolutely right. I'm trying to install Xilinx ISE 10.1 tools
under
Ubuntu, and it failed because of no /bin/arch. More work and apparently
more job security for me, but it detracts from what I am trying to do.
It is this kind of "My crap doesn't stink" attitude that has repeat
LaMont Jones, I use Ubuntu instead of Debian or Gentoo because they
actually seem to care about things working for the user. But any time I
want to use software that's a few years old, it fails to work due to
these kinds of trivial changes. On the other hand, 20 year old DOS and
Windows software st
The optimal solutions would have been to get coreutils upgraded at the
same time as util_linux so the upstream move of this tool had been
reflected into Ubuntu.
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/bin/arch command missing in Gutsy and Hardy
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148511
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Providing the script will just mean that the other packages are never
fixed. Administrators who need /bin/arch can trivially create it.
A change reintroducing /bin/arch will not be accepted into Debian, nor
should it be added to ubuntu.
** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Wo
The fix suggested by KennoVO should be a very easy and safe to make. I
wish it will be in Hardy Heron before it's published...
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/bin/arch command missing in Gutsy and Hardy
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148511
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** Summary changed:
- /bin/arch command missing in gutsy
+ /bin/arch command missing in Gutsy and Hardy
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: util-linux
It seems that /bin/arch command is not installed in util-linux package
- in Gutsy.
+ in Gutsy and Hardy.
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