[SLUG] Want Linux on your desktop?

From: Bill Preece (savatage@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Jun 13 2001 - 08:57:20 EDT


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Pierce <epierce@usf.edu>
To: slug@nks.net <slug@nks.net>
Date: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 8:16 AM
Subject: RE: [SLUG] Want Linux on your desktop? Nine reasons to forget about
it

>
>The real reason Linux is going to have a tough time on the desktop is
>because of how hard it is to install a program. For instance, I just
>installed RH 7.1 on my laptop, and wanted to get my DVD player to work, so
I
>went to linuxvideo.org and grabbed livid. Oops, there are newer versions
of
>libac3, oms, and omi -- well, have to get those too. Compile libac3;
>everything is fine. Compile oms; oops, need a newer version of
>libSDL...gotta go find that. Ok, got libSDL compiled and installed.
Compile
>omi; everything is fine. Run 'omi_gtk'; oops, forgot to compile
>libcss....etc,etc.

What would help is to make the packages with all the libaries included. Then
have a script that will run the compiles and install the program in the
background.
They should not asume that you have these already. Also the Distro's should
already
install the libaries automatically not wait till every app you try to
install has to have more
and more stuff installed. I will say in Debian with apt-get makes things
eaiser , and in Mandrake 8
yes rpm's are getting easier to install.

So how do we get this fixed? Perhaps if we keep on them just like we did for
making Linux it's self
easier to install we now need the apps to install just as easy. There is
several ideas that would make this
more pleasant.

>Most desktop applications are on the cutting edge of what is possible in
>Linux right now...which is not a good place to be if you expect your mom to
>use it.



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