On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 04:53:43 -0800 (PST) "Edward K. Ream" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Davy Cottet has offered to create a Debian distro for Leo shortly > after Leo 5.0-final goes out the door. That's great, and I > appreciate the effort. > > When a leo distro exists, people will be able to do: > > (sudo) apt-get install leo > > But even without an official leo package, people can just do: > > (if needed) apt-get install git > git clone https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor.git > > Can somebody *please* explain to me why the first way is far superior > to the second. I just do not get it. People will also be able to access the .deb with aptitude, synaptic, and ubuntu-software-center, all of which display descriptions, and the last two display screen shots. Also, you can do (sudo) apt-get install leo leo ...well, actually I guess not, but you should be able to, if the .deb approach is fully leveraged. you can't do apt-get install git git clone https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor.git leo Also, depending on people's comfort level and the primary use of the machine, there's a much lower resistance to installing if it's covered by the system's package manager, even if git clone doesn't impact the system. Also, the following is *exactly* how I install software on Ubuntu: tbrown:0> stellarium The program 'stellarium' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install stellarium tbrown:0> sudo apt-get install stellarium tbrown:0> stellarium (oh my god, it's full of stars :-) Remember the apt-get will handle dependencies too - although I think Leo's must have dependencies are covered in Ubuntu 14.04 vanilla install. A lot of people are going to read "You can use git to get Leo" as "Leo is some weird library thing for developers that you need to use that weird git thing to get the source code for and then compile it". I know that's wrong, but we're talking about newbies here. Cheers -Terry > Edward > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
