Ron, it used to be 18 miles uphill both ways, in the snow & freezing rain, so it's all relative :) The reasons that make it "difficult" are also the reasons why it is better, and I'm not talking about job security.
Be careful to get your packages from verified sources, depending on how safe/paranoid you operate you'll want signed packages with checksums and all that. It is always best to use the linux distro's own package management system, unless you really know all the dirty details of what you're doing (or if you're perfectly happy to dig your system into a hole) -- get to know it. If a certain distro just rubs you the wrong way, it may not have been designed with you as the audience, so try some others. I always suggest GUI solutions to help get some started, which does seem to help a lot of folks, but there is another school of thought, a more robust sort of apprenticeship shall we say, where you might use only text terminals until you're proficient enough to build/rebuild/tweak the GUI you'd be relying on :)) There is a terrific self-reliance in that, as the terminal skills apply well to working with serial/tty connections on embedded or other headless systems and are crucial for much recovery work. But hey, if you just want to *use* (er, run your own) clever web app, then you'd prolly be happier with a turn-key sort of solution for the AMP stack. Your frustrations sound like the kind of fun that our collective obsession here is founded on. Oh, we can make this better! ;) hope this helps, ben On 7/29/07, Ron LeVine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I ripped out Apache2 and went looking for apache_perl. Nothing other than > articles about it are shown in a google search. > > Anyone happen to have this package that could email it to me??? > > Thanks again > Ron > > P.S. Why does Linux have to be so freeking hard to install crap? Until it > isn't this hard anymore, it will never replace Windows.. > >
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