Installing software in user friendly way

[Lee Braiden]

On Tuesday 12 Jul 2005 12:52, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> 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.

Agreed.  Also, if you DO want to install from source, there are debian-/ubunu- 
specific ways of doing it so that the system still understands what you've 
done.  make install is harmful.

-- 
Lee Braiden
http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com
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