Sa Mär 09 13:19:41 2013 Good afternoon Thank You for help. > > > > Yeah, that would be what I consider the bad luck part. My point was just > > that relying on a distribution's repositories is not the only option > > available for installing software in linux - That's what the comment I > > responded to seemed to be saying. There are often ways around dependency > > issues if a program is wanted bad enough - at least that has been my > > limited experience. > > > > Well my limited experience began in 1996 for Linux. For the first 6 > years I ran Linux I mainly used Slackware too. Back then Slackware > wasn't known for its strong package management either. It was a great > system, simple enough anyone could hack around with it, solid enough it > was predictable out of the box too. But once you started adding to it on > your own then things quickly got very difficult to keep up with. > > By 2001 I'd given that life up for the much easier RPM method of dealing > with things. That was a golden era then, full of promise, and hope for > the future. Then Red Hat became a publicly traded company, but that is a > story for another time ... > > Anyhow, be careful what you want, you just may get it, then come to > realize it isn't worth the trouble after all. > > Fact is there is a reason every distribution uses virtually the same > scheme of package management that keeps track of versions, dependencies, > and files today. Because no one really wants to do that on their own. It > is in a word drudgery. It is dull, boring, tedious, and hard too! But > most of all it is ultimately a waste of time. Duplication of effort > always is. * Is the best way if the updates does make problems with the os to download a new iso-file and install Linux again or is there a cleaning procedure?
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