Jesse Phillips, el 25 de mayo a las 14:22 me escribiste: > Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > > > > > I think at the end of the day we need a link that people can click on > > and that's that. How can we make that work? Do we need a 64-bit .deb, or > > is it possible to automatically instruct the package manager (in the > > case of Ubuntu gdebi) to install it with dependencies and all? > > > > Andrei > > Ubuntu (and family) is probably the only distro that you can expect > gdebi to be installed on. And the only way to have it install the proper > packages is to install a package with the required dependencies e.g. an > AMD64 package. > > To really make many Linux users happy would be to provide a repository. > Even Google doesn't provide a one-click install for their programs (I > bring them up because they try very hard to be user friendly).
In Ubuntu is extremely easy, just create a PPA[1]. For Debian is not that east but is not that hard either and I think providing a (well done) .deb is acceptable. In Debian (or even Ubuntu) it could be possible to pull the package "upstream" (to the non-free repositories in Debian and to the multiverse repositories in Ubuntu, I think). *That* would be the ideal for a Debian/Ubuntu user. -- Leandro Lucarella (AKA luca) http://llucax.com.ar/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Key: 5F5A8D05 (F8CD F9A7 BF00 5431 4145 104C 949E BFB6 5F5A 8D05) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yo soy Peperino, mártir latino, venid al asado pero traed el vino. -- Peperino Pómoro