Installing software in user friendly way

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 01:44:33PM +0200, Henning Kilset Pedersen wrote:
> tar -zxvf /home/renato/blahblah.tgz

We need to sit down with users and teach them the easier
ways to do things in Ubuntu and Debian. Here are two quick
points that should make your life easier:

1) You almost never need to compile source code.
2) You almost never need to install a package using tar and
   gzip.

The whole point of using a distribution is to avoid doing
these things. You need to do them sometimes -- say, for
specific customizations -- but rarely. If you ever find
yourself compiling from source or unpacking a tar file, take
a few minutes and figure out whether it really needs to be
that hard. Ask on this list, or google.

This reminds me that I want to teach a class on How To Get
The Most Out Of Linux for new users. Separate thread ...

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Stephen R. Laniel
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http://laniels.org/
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