I have no time ot continue this senseless discussion about apt-get. My point is that installing apt-get on non-Debian mcahines is an additional installation which will turn off many newbies. If you don't think so, that's fine. Please carry on using apt-get.
Additionally, the original point had to do with managing additional libraries required to create a Qt version of PCB. While we have been pointlessly discussing a chick-sh*t micro-point about how apt-get manages libraries (if you have it already installed), Bill Wilson has actually implemented (most of the way) a GTK version. Bill has single-handedly altered the gEDA/PCB landscape for the better! Everybody else -- me included -- has just stood around talking, but doing nothing useful. Thank you Bill, for being a hero and doing something for gEDA rather than just talking about it! Therefore, if the Qt proponents are serious, they had better crank out a Qt port of PCB within a few days, or the whole Qt point is dead. One question, however: > In this case I think your installer CD should provide packages in the > distro's format and use the correct tool to install them, and the > relevant dependencies. Fine. Please tell me how a Python program can figure out which distribution it is running on. What command do I issue? Stuart
