I agree. I think Linux should move out of the "geeks only" category and become an OS everyone can use. Gnucash is a very important end user program and if the end-user can't install it he won't use it. --- Bill Gribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It may be unrealistic, but I would like an install > experience that's > as novice-friendly as the Windows and MacOS > installers (but that works > a lot better and doesn't install needless junk on > your machine). What > that means to me is that you put a CD in the drive, > double-click an > icon, and answer a minimal number of questions, and > the rest is done > for you. Of course you should also be able to > escape this process and > install the RPM/deb by hand, or build from source, > or run the > "friendly" installer and just produce a shell script > of commands as > output that you can inspect and run at your leisure. > > An installer that can deal with all this is probably > a sophisticated > enough piece of software that it would deserve being > "its own thing". > > Bill Gribble > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
