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Roy wrote:
> Welcome to Linux!
>
> Linux is NOT Windows. Do NOT download applications from individual web sites
> such as Mozilla. Ubuntu applications are placed in secure and maintained
> repositories. To install them you use a package manager. Ubuntu comes with
> two of them, Synaptic and Software Centre. You can use either, but not both
> at the same time. You need to provide your password. To install
> applications. Unlike Windows you don't choose where to install. Applications
> are installed in protected folders in the root file system.
>
It's amazing how much of what you say in this post was not correct, for
me, until just a few months ago. :)
Starting in Linux as I did, with Red Hat 7 and Slackware back in 2000, I
had to learn how to do things like compile from source code, tweak
makefiles, etc.
Even as recently as Open Office 2, on RHEL3, I was still tracking down
dependencies on my own.
I did not discover yum until a few months ago, when I upgraded to CentOS
5.4.
Holy Crap! Welcome to the 21st Century, Wittig!
I still install small apps w/o a lot of dependencies into my local
/home/wittig/
libraries, so it is a nice, local place to put things.
Linux has come a looong way, since 2000.
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- -wittig
http://www.robertwi
http://robertwittig
http://robertwittig
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