Mehul Ved wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Rony <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Why should FOSS always get associated with something that is not easy to >> setup whereas doze automatically is assumed to be one touch? Why not >> have one touch installation in FOSS? >> > > http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/software-installation-in-linux-is-difficult/ > > Ask the author to install Firefox 3 in Kubuntu 7.X or 8.x series or in Etch KDE. Or let him install OpenOffice 3 in Ubuntu 8.04. Let him try to install software and higher versions that are not included in the apt repo.
By one touch install I don't mean that no choices will be given along the way or no questions will be asked. By one touch I mean not having to tinker around with various libraries or support software before installing the main one. Upgrading from OpenOffice 2.x to 3.x is easy in Windows XP (2002 version) which is much older than Ubuntu 8.04 but try doing the same in Ubuntu 8.04. If anyone can accept the challenge, please post the procedure for me as it will save me from having to remove all the existing 8.04s on 7 machines and 5 laptops at an office and installing Ubuntu 9.04 which comes with OOo3.x. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
