I was hopping I would not have to resort to compiling everything from source. I recall that a while ago a simple apt-get would be enough to get everything working just fine in Ubuntu. Now that was friendly...
Daniel On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Nikos Alexandris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 16:25 +0200, Maris Nartiss wrote: >> >> Another GRASS+Ubuntu segfault. Use search to get more info. In short: >> remove GRASS and all of it's dependencies and complie new ones FROM >> SOURCE! (or choose some better user-friendly distribution like Gentoo) >> >> Maris. > > [...] > > Sorry for breaking-in to your discussion. > > I want to confirm that through my small experience with Ubuntu and > osgeo-tools, I have seen several times segfault problems. Things are > really better when compiling from source. > > About the "Gentoo and user-friendly" argument: it could use a ";-)" > smiley :-). > > FWIW: > Seriously, I don't doubt about it being *real user-friendly*. But most > people tend to identify user-friendly systems as systems that just work > out-of-box. Since there are different views it is necessary to define > what one understands as *user-friendly* and what not. Anyhow, I think > that Gentoo, is definitely NOT for a new-comer in the FOSS4G field. > > Kind Regards, Nikos > > _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
