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On Saturday 25 December 2004 7:20 pm, Ed Sutherland wrote: > Actually, I rarely "drive to the store" for software, but order online > and the FedEx guy (or gal) brings it to my door. So far (and I admit > I've just gotten my feet wet with Windows installations) the process > installing programs (commercial, open source or somewhere in between) > has been rather smooth and uneventful. Well, that still takes six to eight weeks longer than it should have to (not to mention the money part). > I asked the question because my limited experience with Linux on the > ppc side often (although not so much with debain) involved frustrating > file dependancies or hang-ups where a package includes some -- but not > all -- necessary files, requiring the user to chase down a library or > other file. That may have improved. The problem you describe is known as RPM hell. I think you can guess why by now. dpkg doesn't suffer that problem when you use apt: apt figures it all out for you. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ursine.dyndns.org/~baloo/
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