On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, Lucas Levrel wrote:
Le 15 décembre 2010, Bret Busby a écrit :
No, I do not try dealing with .tar and .tar.zip or whatever files anymore,
for installing software. I have previously stated that my experience of
what
has been involved, is horrenous - it is like something out of a kafkaesque
nightmare.
Archives are only containers. That experience you have depends on the
contents: sources or binaries.
The cited webpage explicitly mentions Lenny as having the required
dependencies.
In the past, with trying to keep up to date with a Mozilla or Netscape
web browser suite, by unsing the horrible .tar.zip method of
instalation, I had to create a new directory in a particular path, and
put the furball into that, then decompress it, and it installed it in a
lower level directory, and, due to the way that it all operated, I was
having to go down seven levels of directories and beyond, to do the
horrible decompress process, and it just became too nasty.
And, in all of that, I then had to find where the executable file was
located, and work out how to get the software to run by creating bodgy
menu entries or the seven plus level paths for the command line
statement required to run the software.
It kind of leads to an understanding as to why some people prefer to
slit their wrists.
This is one of the advantages of using package management - it takes
care of dependencies, and, it replaces, as needed, software or software
components, as they need updating, and, it generally takes care of
maintaining menu entries, AND updating software, as updates become
available.
Using package management for installing and updating software, is much
preferable to the kafkaesque nightmare of using furballs for software.
It is one reason why software for creating packages, is available for
software developers, and it makes Microsoft Access 2 and/or Microsoft
Access97, far superior to the current Firefox and Seamonkey development
- Microsoft Access 2 and/or 97, had an SDK available, which allowed a
developer to create an installable, standalone database, that meant that
the software could be installed, by more or less clicking install, and
away it went, unlike this nightmarish system of using furballs, instead
of installable packages.
Unfortunately, it appears that Mozilla, in the Firefox and Seamonkey
projects, has not yet advanced to the level of Microsoft Access 2 and
97, or Opera, or, other software that can run on Linux, that uses
package management for software installation and maintenance.
As I have previously said - it is a question of whether software is
written for the benefit of users, or, for the benefit of the software
developers.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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