Probably stupid question, but

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 27 August 2013 15:06:28 Ric Moore did opine:

> On 08/27/2013 02:28 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Then why is that particular repo not enabled by default in the
> > distribution /etc/apt/sources.list?  When I discovered it wasn't in
> > the list synaptic was showing me, I did the next most obvious thing,
> > went browsing and when the failure showed up, clicked the button. 99%
> > of the new users will do that.
> 
> Gene, just like with Red Hat and every other distro, all Adobe products
> are proprietary, requiring you to accept their non-GPL license. That you
> must manually do. The "Yes / Don't accept this license" box will pop up
> during the install, be sure to look under other opened windows for it,
> as the install will not proceed until you do. Use the tab key to switch,
> as by default it is set to "don't accept". It's been like that for as
> long as I can remember. Using the restricted driver repo insures that
> all things will go into their proper places and actually do useful work.
> 
> Again, back in the Slackware / Red Hat / Caldera days, what was going on
> under the hood was FAR more simple than it is today. Olde Head that I
> am, I don't mess under the hood anymore. It's past my knowledge level
> and pay grade nowadays. Surrender gracefully, and you will have far
> fewer problems. I know, it's tough for a screwdriver users like us! But,
> someone else has done the heavy lifting for us now. And, they have been
> shown to make relatively few major mistakes. :) Ric

That is pretty much true Ric, but somebody forget to tell Network-Mangler & 
fix it on any of the 12.04 LTS respins.  Then to move everything around and 
hide it so that lacking xray vision to find it (and man pages explaining it 
I might add) old hands like me will fix the files that need fixed to make 
it work, and then set the i flag on it with a chattr.

Since Network-Mangler is in dependency hell and cannot be removed, the 
chattr after fixing the real files right is a heck of a good idea.  It 
doesn't seem to mind not being able to overwrite a good file with its 
version of hog slop, dreamed up out of thin air.

Cheers, Gene
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