| From: | Matthew Garrett |
| Date: | 6 Aug 2000 at 00:15:57 |
| Subject: | Re: Linux? Tell me more. |
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 11:01:51PM +0000, Andrew Crowe wrote:
> Anyway, even once you've got it (partialy in my case) working, it's
> also a pain installing new software, as out of the few programs I've
> downloaded from the internet, only 1 actually installed/compiled
> right. (it was really disappointing when I couldn't get the PC
> emulator working :(
Use precompiled stuff instead. Debian has packages of just about every
piece of software in the world ever that all work together properly and
can be downloaded and installed in one go by doing "apt-get install
programname". It's very, very nice, and the easiest software installation
system that I've found anywhere.
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