Upgrading software really isn't fun. Downloading it, unpacking it,
./configure; make; make install, yes, that can take less than an hour.
Or sometimes it hits incompatibility bugs ("can't find iplv6.h"). Then
the fun really starts.
Wow... is Sarge like that? Current Linux distributions are almost
exclusively upgraded via the applications in the software repositories.
I can't remember the last time I had to do a ./configure in the
upgrade on a regular application. It is simply fire up the software
management tool (Synaptic, Adept, Smart etc. depending on Ubuntu, SUSE
etc.) and click a few times.. wait for it to download and install.. done.
This is even how I update my OpenOffice.org install.
By the way, the new version of OpenOffice can read your 1.1.3 version
files just fine. It can even save back to that version if you want.
So I tend not to upgrade software as such. Unless something is really
badly broken, I don't try to fix it. Being without the help file counts
as broken here.
I don't blame you for not wanting to upgrade with all the pain that
you've described with your Debian install.
The new stuff is nice... very nice... and so very easy to maintain in
current Linux distributions (I cannot speak for Debian Etch since I
refuse to use Debian because if it's insistence on using old
applications.. maybe Etch has joined the rest of the Linux world and
moved to Repository based software management?).
C.
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