I would like to share with you the project I have been working for some
time now which I think could help solving bug #1.
The problem:
- Users coming from Windows (and in general beginners) want installation
of applications to be as easy as possible. Download, Next, Next, Done
kind of experience.
On 8/6/07, Krzysztof Lichota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to share with you the project I have been working for some
> time now which I think could help solving bug #1.
>
> The problem:
> - Users coming from Windows (and in general beginners) want installation
> of applications to be
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 13:03 -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote:
> On 8/6/07, Krzysztof Lichota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I would like to share with you the project I have been working for some
> > time now which I think could help solving bug #1.
> >
> > The problem:
> > - Users coming from Windows
Conrad Knauer:
> On 8/6/07, Krzysztof Lichota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Package installation applications (Synaptic, Adept) and apt repositories
>> do not solve the problem for the following reasons:
>> 1. Repositories must be added manually and this exceeds skills of
>> average Windows user. K
Every time someone comes up with a new, more-intuitive way to install
software on Linux, there seems to be more negative comments about it
than positive. I recall similar comments when Gdebi was proposed, but
it seems to have gone over okay.
I only see one major flaw in Krzysztof's model: securit
On 8/6/07, Greg K Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The apt protocol ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AptFirefoxFileHandler ) will
> fix this.
>
>
Can anyone tell if this will be implemented in time for Gutsy?
Wouter.
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Conrad Knauer napisał(a):
>> The problem:
>> - Users coming from Windows (and in general beginners) want installation
>> of applications to be as easy as possible. Download, Next, Next, Done
>> kind of experience.
>
> Individual DEB files installed with Gdebi provide this sort of thing
> currently
Kevin Fries napisał(a):
> On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 13:03 -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote:
>> Individual DEB files installed with Gdebi provide this sort of thing
>> currently (e.g. try http://www.getdeb.net/)
>
> Or even better:
>
> http://digg.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_Install_applications_from_Internet_wi
Greg K Nicholson napisał(a):
> Conrad Knauer:
>> On 8/6/07, Krzysztof Lichota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Package installation applications (Synaptic, Adept) and apt repositories
>>> do not solve the problem for the following reasons:
>>> 1. Repositories must be added manually and this exceeds s
Chris Wagner napisał(a):
> Every time someone comes up with a new, more-intuitive way to install
> software on Linux, there seems to be more negative comments about it
> than positive. I recall similar comments when Gdebi was proposed, but
> it seems to have gone over okay.
>
> I only see one maj
On Monday 06 August 2007 17:09, Chris Wagner wrote:
> Every time someone comes up with a new, more-intuitive way to install
> software on Linux, there seems to be more negative comments about it
> than positive. I recall similar comments when Gdebi was proposed, but
> it seems to have gone over ok
Krzysztof Lichota:
> Greg K Nicholson napisał(a):
>> The apt protocol ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AptFirefoxFileHandler ) will
>> fix this.
>
> Yes, this is similar to what I want to achieve, but:
> - it does not provide information for different distributions and other
> systems than APT
> - it do
Krzysztof Lichota:
> Conrad Knauer napisał(a):
>> I note, later on in your e-mail
>> that you have in mind basically a front-end for just about any package
>> management system. That's one way towards getting a unified Linux
>> package management system, though Mark Shuttleworth comments that "so
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 02:22 +0100, Greg K Nicholson wrote:
> Drive-by href: http://autopackage.org/
I think Autopackage has the wrong idea. From a technical perspective
most package formats contain the same data, so converting between them
should be easy. The actual problem is the contents of the
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