Hi!
Just to give another example of excellent Unix installation procedures:
take a look at Debian.
Installing lyx is this line (as root): 'apt-get install lyx'. Thats it.
apt resolves all dependencies, loads all needed packages from the
configured source (cd, nfs, ftp, http) and installs them. It
Initially quoting me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>>Incidently, if you have something against FreeBSD, I understand that
>>the ports system works with NetBSD too.
>Cool. So is that just a Makefile that pulls down the tar ball and
>makes the package?
Ports is a skeletal directory structure of makefil
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:30:43PM -0700, Dave Tweten wrote:
> >I spent an entire afternoon trying to install DocBook recently ... it
> >was a mass of packages and other things ... in fact it was a needless
> >pain in the arse.
>
> cd /usr/ports/textproc/docbook
> make install
>
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>... mostly Unix does NOT set high standards for users or anyone else
>(poor sysadmin guys?) so far as installation goes.
>Basically I don't want to know about config files and environment
>variables and so on and on and on when all I want is a bit of software
>to do a p
Hi Guys,
Just a comment on this. I understand and agree with a lot of criticism
of Micro$oft
products, and will not use it for development unless at gun point. BUT I
think
one thing where Unix is still a disaster, and Micro$oft got it right, is
in the way
software is installed. Oh Ok, there a
As I am responsible for the Win32-Releases I have followed the whole topic
and this is my comment:
At the moment, because LyX is NOT a Win32 native application you do need any
available X-Server. Xfree IMHO is not ready to be used by all users because
many things have to be configured manually de
> I am regularly faced with the challenge that Windoze users expect that no
> installation procedure should be more complicated than the most simplest
> software. It's odd, as they are happy to reboot two or three times to get IE
> to work, but refuse to contemplate any non-M$ish software that
On Tue 12 Jun 01 08:19, Allan Rae wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Baruch Even wrote:
> > A project idea I came up with after one too many requests for LyX is to
> > have a Linux (or any other unix for that matter) distribution complete
> > with LaTeX/DocBook support an X-Server and LyX to be booted
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 23:57:51 +0200 wrote Thorsten Fischer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > A self-extracting, self-installing LyX4Win would be a great idea, and would
> > really get LyX into popular use, I think. As for X-servers, Cygwin's is
> > free, though I don't know if that's as in beer or sp
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Baruch Even wrote:
> A project idea I came up with after one too many requests for LyX is to
> have a Linux (or any other unix for that matter) distribution complete
> with LaTeX/DocBook support an X-Server and LyX to be booted into from
> the CD itself.
I have been seriousl
> A self-extracting, self-installing LyX4Win would be a great idea, and would
> really get LyX into popular use, I think. As for X-servers, Cygwin's is
> free, though I don't know if that's as in beer or speech - they seem to
> have been incorporated into RedHat. See http://cygwin.com/xfree/
>
On Monday 11 June 2001 02:05, Baruch Even wrote:
> A project idea I came up with after one too many requests for LyX is to
> have a Linux (or any other unix for that matter) distribution complete
> with LaTeX/DocBook support an X-Server and LyX to be booted into from
> the CD itself.
>
> Basically
A project idea I came up with after one too many requests for LyX is to
have a Linux (or any other unix for that matter) distribution complete
with LaTeX/DocBook support an X-Server and LyX to be booted into from
the CD itself.
Basically the idea is to make LyX useable for those who use mostly
wi
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