Hello - Just a quick note on the Debian package experiment. I was able to create a .deb package which contained the Quackle binaries and data files. Dependencies were resolved automatically. I was also able to make it work on fresh installs of both Debian and Ubuntu. The package is sitting on my USB key and I believe it could be installed on any Debian-based OS.
The install wasn't pretty, however, because apparently when I created the package, I flubbed on the path names. As a result everything installed on the root directory. Despite that, it *did* work. I'm going to redo the package and make things install to a more appropriate directory. Any suggestions on what that should be? /usr/games, perhaps? Or maybe $HOME/quackle? (I'm not extremely familiar with the historical context of where things are "supposed" to live on a Unix / Linux machine.) Bear in mind, I'm doing this in between the vagaries of everyday life - work, potty-training, getting kids ready for school, etc. - so it may be a week or two before I get it completely done and tested. Lastly, does anyone have - or know of - a publicly-accessible place on the net where 1) the resultant 35MB file could take up permanent residence and 2) bandwidth costs would never be an issue? -- Brad Mills Director, NSA Club #620 - Charleston, WV http://www.wvscrabble.com
