On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:38:06 +1300 > Brett Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Not dpkg hell. Just that Ubuntu do not include "proprietary" software in >> their repos. >> Add the medibuntu repo to the sources.list and you'll be fine. >> > Unfortunately the following line... > deb http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy free non-free > is already in the sources.list
So, you're suggesting that Ubuntu gets package dependency problems, when you're installing software from outside the Ubuntu repositories? Mmmm ... Dependency hell isn't caused by the packaging format (RPM vs .deb), it's caused by the repositories and their (lack of) policies. OpenBSD uses tar files extracted in / as the official packaging system, and it works fine for them :-) because they control the contents of those tarballs well. (As an aside, why use apt-get when you could be using aptitude? aptitude takes extra care to help un-installation, which is really handy when experimenting) It's astounding how many problems people on 64bit architectures seem to get when they're trying to use codecs and Flash, etc. Sad that the state of the art is so far behind. We've had 64bit OSs for quite a while now, and finally we're seeing consumer hardware that actually needs it (primarily large RAM installs) ... and all we're left with is this lack of support from the proprietary software crowd. -jim
