On 4/28/07, V. Sasi Kumar sasi.fsf@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 21:07 +0530, Mahesh M wrote:
Why is it that the required files and libraries are not distributed with
the
package? Can any arrangement be made for the same?
Like... When s/w s are d/l ed one may not be able to install it (errors
like
ncurses are missing and all) User end people find it very very difficult... They hate searching net
for
every single thing jus to install one single package. I have been hearing this for a thousand times..
This need not be a problem when one is installing from the Net. Most distributions now have package managers that can automatically download and install dependencies from the Net.
is there a way of installing the packages that do not belong to repositiry. I dont think that driver files of modem and all can be integrated to package manager. We usually use dpkg, alien or rpm (rather I and my friends !!) And they (not the latest one :) )do not have anything called "satisfy dependency by checking the net" option!! And even the newer versions arent that friendly as user needs to know host ID, user name passwd, address etc. Nobody is bothered to sacrifice so much of time for such a thing!
A problem occurs when one is
trying to install an application from a CD or DVD distributed by, say, a magazine, and it provides only that package and you have to download the dependencies. The problem becomes sever if the machine is not connected to the Net, obviously.
Exactly .. But is there any solution. Since in country like India, we cant expect the users to get a quality connection, rather sometimes any net-connection at all!
Best
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