It seems that the JBDC driver has a requirement for having 2 JAR files (JDBC driver and BLOB object) which I have but can’t figure out how to specify the path.

I’m trying to connect to an existing DB hosted on IBM Informix Dynamic Server. Using Postgress is not an option in my case. I have not tried SQL Alchemy yet, but I suspect it’ll have the same issues as it appears to be just a way of accessing other libraries (such as JDBC), which I am already having problems with.

There are plenty of ways to configure Linux to circumvent sudo. I’ve even seen people who log in as root by default. I do not, however, advise anyone to do that even if it’s just, as you put it, a Molly Guard. It has prevented me personally from doing catastrophic things to my system on a number of occasions.

This would literally render sudo utterly useless. Sudo is meant to require password to accomplish admin tasks. In your scenario anyone using your computer can do anything without knowing the password.

I suggest setting up Timeshift so it can backup your drive daily and keep several days worth. This way when you or an update screws up your system, you can simply restore to the last working version.

I’ve been using Linux for more than a decade and distro hopped quite a bit. Mint used to be my happy place, but recently within the last 5 years or so I’ve been on Arch derivatives. Endeavour was never stable enough for my liking, but Manjaro has been great. I did have to go back to a snapshot once, fairly recently, but that was primary because I fecked it up and not due to an update.

You mentioned that you have tried several Arch-based distros, so I’m not sure if this includes Manjaro.

Gimp, OpenOffice.org, VLC, Slackware, and on and on after that. Every flavor of Linux: RedHat, SuSe, Ubuntu, now on Manjaro and Endeavour.

Good riddance to rotten garbage!

Supposedly you will be able to use FB Lite app to chat. I got the same message, uninstalled Messenger Lite and verified that FB Lite app works for chatting.

It worked as far as syncing the subscriptions. I was also hoping it would sync the profile settings like languages, display name etc. Which it didn’t. Not a big deal though as I was mostly after the subscriptions.

That’s true, but I wanted to avoid having to do all that work. :) Just being lazy.

Trying it now.