Suggestion for Ubuntu

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 10/16/06, Nelson Alvarez <alvareznelson at gmail.com> wrote:
(snip)
> Coming from Windows, the most shocking ferature of Linux distros was the
> impossibility to install and uninstall programs the one-click easy way. Of
> course, once I learned how Synaptic works, I quickly understood the
> superiority of this way of doing things. But my first reaction when I needed
> a program, such as RealPlayer, for instance, was to download it from its
> website. I downloaded a  tar.gz file to my desktop, clicked on it, and went
> nuts when nothing happened. I overcame that. I'm a happy Ubuntu user now.
> (snip)

This has been proposed and has feature specifications see e.g.:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThirdPartyApt
https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/one-click-install

Comments and additions should be posted to one of the above websites
(probably ThirdPartyApt which seems more active).


-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia