World: r3wp

I need to prepare some installation instructions for our polish partner. 
I will do some scripts to access mySQL on their server, using rebol, 
but I will not have access to the site. So I want to be well prepared, 
so they don't get annoyed after writing them tens of times "try that, 
try this" etc. :-)

They use Debian. I have Fedora at home. What would I like to ask 
is - where to put rebol interpreter on Debian? Where to put things 
like user.r or mysql-protocol.r or whatever other script I produce 
to them? The path is almost always trouble for me. I e.g. start console 
and I have to define set-net once again, as it does not use my user.r 
settings etc. Any insights?

has latest beta core available shell access? I will not probably 
able to solve mySQL 4.0.1 charset conversions using mySQL commands, 
so I will use 'iconv utility .... need to convert by using externall 
tool, so I need shell access for that ...

thanks a lot ...

why not use encap

Then they/you can put one binary *anywhere* in the path

encap? that could be way to go ... but I am not sure what SDK I have, 
not probably /Command sdk - do I have shell enabled? :-)

... hopefully so ...

All SDKs have shell, library and encryption. Command adds ODBC/Oracle 
and SSL (client side)

interpreter can be anywhere, usually /usr/local/bin. the shebang 
(first line, with that #!) needs to point there, but thats not rebol-specific, 
its the way with every language.

about special settings (user.r) i would write a short script dumping 
system/options and system/script. running from cgi. That should show 
the pathes.

i guess user.r is at users home, not sure where that is with their 
cgi-settings. on a new rebol 
 >> get-env "HOME"
== "/home/volker"
works too.

where are sub-script? rebol makes a cd to the current script. So 
you can use relative addresses from there. just make a subdir %lib/ 
where the script is.

call: i have 2.6.0.4.2 and call is there. IIRC thats the real release, 
not even beta.

when i upload things, i use a builder-script which takes my local 
installation and replaces some things, like the shebang. then i copy 
that result to the server. you could make a config-script, 
 exe: %/usr/local/bin/rebol
 data: %/svr/www/my-dir/
  ..
let them adjust that and run the builder.

Also it makes sense to not hard-wire most pathes, but put them in 
a config too and load them at runtime. but does not work with the 
shebang, it must be hardcoded in the script.

happy installing ;)

thanks a lot! :-)

(about shebang, dont forget to mention that little "-c" or "-cs"!!)

You can keep your scripts unchanged with this shebang line:

#! /usr/bin/env rebol

what is a good client for bittorrent? i want to help seeding a bit, 
but not to have lots of btdownloadcurses open.

I use Azureus ....

self updating java client. Some folks found it slow and eating too 
much CPU cycles, but no problem here at all ...

cpu-cycles would be a problem here i guess. but will look, thanks.

but that was reported some xyz versions before. They do regular updates, 
it is really a nice app, having auto-updates for itself and its plug-ins, 
simply a joy to use - that is how apps should work - install just 
once and then have it up-to-date for ages ...

ah, did not noticed I am in linux group, sorry. But Azureus is JAVA 
based, hopefully it will work with linux too ...

should, thats why i did not notice it could be wrong :)

I tried playing the presentation on Mandrake and all I got was the 
vid/no sound ? Which player are you guys using that will play a mp4 
?

mplayer.

but Gabriele says vlc works, except of version 0.8

mplayer is probably the best on linux.

tried mplayer and all I got was the vid/no sound-yet it does play 
a mp3 ?

do you have all the plugins? it uses some codecs from windows. compiled 
mine myself, based on some tutorial. maybe distros has not everything 
due to ip?

will check,thanks ! still a newbie in the Linux world-have a Linux 
user group meeting tonite :)

i have a /usr/lib/win32 full of such codes. and there where one or 
two other dirs mentioned too. IIRC xine suggested to download the 
mplayer-codes too, althought i installed from distro.

mplayer should not need the win codecs for mp4.

maybe your mandrake is just a bit old.

try to download mpeg4ip, it is a mp4-only player/encoder. that should 
in theory work...

have 10.1 not the very newest but $ is tight right now

(IMHO you should donwload Ubuntu, it will keep itself updated and 
it is easy to use - though gnome based)

also i can not get View 1.3.? to install it does not make a ./rebol 
dir ?

problem with most Linux distro is that I have a dual cpu and most 
don't support dual cpus :(

on XP right now other wise I could check as I write

google "mplayer mp4 mandrake"

The solution (hopefully): install something more: http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20050925.165309.a1ed86e6.en.html

your problem: http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20050924.022642.ef5dfed6.en.html

about dual cpu: i guess thats wrong. usually distros have multiple 
kernels and you need one with smp in the name. should be as simple 
as telling the package-manager what you want. (in theorie, never 
tested smp, but on debian changed kernel for other reasons that way.

ubuntu sounds good. there is a kubuntu or something beased on kde. 
also, dont know about ubuntu, but on debian if i would install a 
kde-program without having kde, it would suggest a lot packeages, 
and 100mb later i would have everything including desktop i guess.

it's about the same for ubuntu, except they usually use the latest 
packages. I had gnome 2.12 the day before it came out officially.

so with ubuntu what do I do about the missing lib to run altme

tomc: I have the same problem, btw.

install something ;)