Why Ubuntu isn't for New Linux Users

[Jan Claeys]

Op ma, 27-02-2006 te 07:19 +1100, schreef Sasha Tsykin:
> Basically with gdebi installed you just double click on a deb file and
> install it. Any dependencies will be installed automatically through
> synaptic.
> 
> What would be interesting would be to see gdebi work for rpms too.
> (through alien) is there any reason why this can't be done? I woudl do
> it mysefl, but I don't have the programming knowledge. 

The depency system would probably break because of differently named
packages in Ubuntu vs. RPM distros...

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Jan Claeys