john cusey <john_cu...@hotmail.com> writes: > Why I can not download a .deb file, click it and it installs?
What kind of answer are you looking for? One correct answer would be: Because installing software is a potentially very disruptive act on a computer, so it should be done through a formal system of packages. Installing a package, for me, is a matter of: * Open the package manager as a privileged user. Because I never want to be able to accidentally install software, my normal user account has no access to do this. * Browse the menu of available packages. * Click it, and it installs. > I tried to install opera on Debian. So, another correct answer is: Debian is an operating system of free software, and Opera is instead proprietary, so necessarily outside Debian. Third-party packages may not be so smoothly integrated into the package system. Non-free software may be available from people who maintain it for use in Debian, but there is no guarantee it is available in the package manager. > I have computer science degree and I still trying to do this. You imply that the problem is primarily one of technical difficulty. Not so: it is much more a problem of competing interests (those who want to restrict software freedom do not want their software on the terms Debian is available) and social factors (ensuring people cannot shoot themselves in the foot with a dangerously insecure tool will necessarily entail some barriers to one-click operation). > I know nobody will read this email. You know better now. -- \ “Good morning, Pooh Bear”, said Eeyore gloomily. “If it is a | `\ good morning”, he said. “Which I doubt”, said he. —A. A. Milne, | _o__) _Winnie-the-Pooh_ | Ben Finney
