Linux development and potty training at the same time! Eke, the experts are
getting younger and younger.
May I suggest Mike Barron's "Word Puzzles for the Constipated" as a special
Labor Day gift.
Just kidding, I am happy to see a Linux distro. I have to wonder if on
equivalent hardware, how much faster a simulation would run on Linux vs XP.
Zax The Mentally Encoprecic.
"Brad Mills (NSA Club 620)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
