newbie user/root dycotomy

[Martijn van de Streek]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Douglas Alves wrote:

> listed in Synaptic (old, & new for KDE). Looking up their website, I got
> the impression that the Debian package they give for the old version had
> a higher patchlevel than the one in the Synaptic repository. So I
> downloaded it to my Desktop (I haven't learned where everything ought to
> go on a Linux box), but then opening the tar file I couldn't unpack it
> into /usr/local as it suggests.

As someone else said, newer versions aren't always better versions. And
if you really need it, it's almost always better to bug the maintainers
(http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com. -- or for packages in universe:
http://bugs.debian.org/)

Also remember that when a release is "done", packages won't change,
unless there's a security issue, and you have to wait for the next
release.

> Some time ago I had tried the same for a plug-in from Adobe Reader, with
> the same result.

Why Adobe Reader? xpdf is included, and can do most of the things adobe
can do. If you want it as a plugin in your browser, you can install the
"mozplugger" package.

Martijn
-- 
If you can’t be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
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