[SOLVED] System cleaner.

[TheJanitor]

since arch has started using python3, bleachbit is broken, so i am looking for a system cleaner to replace it. i need something that will overwrite file contents and clear firefox cache + the all the normal functions of a system cleaner.

any suggestions? i am using gnome.


Thanks.

[b2bwild]

So, Do you have Python 2.x installed on your system by default or no?

[reed9]

Hello,

Please read the news section of the Arch Linux homepage.

Arch Linux - News: Python is now Python 3

Python2 is moved into its own package in Extra.

Bleachbit-svn in the AUR correctly lists the dependencies as python>=2 and <=2.5.

[b2bwild]

You should install the Python 2.x, and It might fix the issue right away. As most of the Python programmers mention their interpreter explicitly.

[TheJanitor]

So, Do you have Python 2.x installed on your system by default or no?

i have 2.7



thank you reed, much appreciated. how would i go about locating python 2.5? i have 3.1 and 2.7 installed currently. there only seems to be 2.7 in the arch package database. thanks.

[reed9]

Hmm, well now, I didn't read it closely, but yes, 2.7 is the current version in extra.

However, I just installed bleachbit-svn from the AUR to check it out and it works fine for me. Does it not work for you?

[TheJanitor]

hmm, yes sorry it does. when i initially created a launcher for it, i ran the gui script like so.

python /scr/python/bleachbit-0.8.0/bleachbit/GUI.py

it worked fine, but for some reason changing it to the python2 interpreter did not work. however, running

python2 /scr/python/bleachbit-0.8.0/bleachbit.py

does work. i am not sure why one would work but the other does not. well anyway it is fixed now. thanks.