Ubuntu installers?

[Owen Thomas]

On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 at 16:09, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users <
ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2023-01-06 at 11:12 +1100, Owen Thomas wrote:
> > snap, rpm, deb, yum, etc...
>
> Yum is a front-end utility for rpm (based distros), hence you can use
> rpm, you don't need to use yum.
>

I hear you Ralf, and, with the merely general understanding I do have (I've
got more important things to think about), I understand that all these
acronyms I listed might well be for tools that target different areas of
software installation and management.

I think what happened for me personally is that I got confused and
frustrated with the fact that there are at least two (bossibly three, maybe
four, perhaps even five or more... depends on who you're talking to) ways
to install software on Ubuntu. It appears to me to be that several
individuals/groups all worked on their own particular solution. While each
solution might work great on its own, each appeared almost at the same time
without talking to others. This seems a bit different to Microsoft or Apple
who can just anoint one particular solution and have that solution be
forever more, the solution that does the job. Because of this difference,
multiple formats for managing one's installed software for Ubuntu/Linux
materialised almost instantaneously and coincidentally.

Ubuntu really does need to have just one way of managing installed
software, and everyone needs to plug this one way as the one true way
because the confusion is a barrier to uptake.

There. Another problem fixed. I'm rather good at this.
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