On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:01:59 +1300 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 12 January 2007 18:43, Nick Rout wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:11:54 +1300 > > > > Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Greets Cluggers, > > > > > > >From another thread people said:- > > > > > > > > > FWIW I think rtorrent is the best bt client for linux, by a > > > > > country mile. I am running it on freebsd. > > > > > > > > Yes you said that last time we discussed torrent programs, but > > > > when I asked how to install it I got no reply so I gave up on it. > > > > > > > > Basically I have not yet mastered installing anything that > > > > doesn't come as stock standard yet. If you want to out line step > > > > by step how to install it Iwould still like to look at it. > > > > > > We have the next meeting coming up on the 13 February. > > > > > > Would it be of value to make this one a demostration of installing > > > application software on as many different distros for which we can > > > find competent instructors? > > > > falling off a log isn't it? point, click, go. > See the paragraph above. It all depends. That's true if the particular > app. is supported by your distribution, but if it's something out of > the ordinary, then you need to know how to configure, make and make > install, and - if you are a purist - how to create the installable > binary package file or the entry into the meta-data database. Also of > course many apps have build-time configuration options which the > distributer cannot possibly setup for every possible combination. > well installing from source is much the same everywhere. ./configure; make; make install, backwards recursively install things it needs first. Break your system. If you want to get into creating proper packages for your packaging system, where there were none before, whew thats untrivial IMHO. Of course gentoo is the easiest for that, but if you want to get into writing .spec files or the .deb equivalent, thats a pretty non-newbie session. > It's the niggley details like setting the repository urls and things > like that which bamboozle new refugees. > ubuntu seems to make it easy, what else is popular these days? > Got any better ideas to inform and entertain the troops next month? > > > > Volunteers? > > > > > > We might combine that with an extended tea/coffe break and informal > > > discussion groups. > > > > > > Interested folks should please squeak ( pun intended ) now. > > > > > > -- > > > CS >
