On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:25, Roger Searle wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > >On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:13, Roger Searle wrote: > >>I struck out last night with Nick's direction on this, none of the > >>methods revealed any obvious signs of icons! I'm going to change tack > >>on this one a little and look to upgrade ethereal, the one on my home > >>desktop is 0.10.3 from memory and a more recent one is available. The > >>whole topic of software upgrades in linux is one that I really struggle > >>with (piece of cake in windows) so a new thread on "ethereal upgrade" > >>will appear before too long ie when I can find the time. > > > >Upgrades is the one thing that both Gentoo and Debian have both sorted out > >properly. Consider coming to the Gentoo MiniInstallFest. > > Thanks for the invite, I was nearly an attendee last time round and some > family thing got in the way. I've swapped distributions a few times > leading up to suse and think I'll stay put for now. > > The huge differences between windows and linux in terms of software > installations and upgrades is something that used to make my head spin - > still does - the ease with which I can do it in windows and the > difficulties (usually total failures) and mistakes I have previously had > in linux have made me really resistant to learning the ins and outs to > the point of not using anything that doesn't come on the install disks > (that much I can do). That's actually quite a sensible attitude, expecting just any old random .rpm to work properly in any of the .rpm based distros is a false expectation imho and experience.
> It's time for me to get over myself and get on with it... The nice thing about Gentoo is the number of ready to go packages available for d/l and installation using the 'emerge package' command. Agreed, Gentoo is considerably less convenient to install in the first place, but for me I find that the benefits of Gentoo's superiour QA, and the easy package installation and upgrade far outweigh that initial inconvenience. -- C. S.
