New user encountering problems

[Geoff Shang]

On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Brent Harding wrote:

> I've liked debian for awhile, but tons of stuff won't compile, because the
> locations of files are a little screwy.

Personally, I've found debian's file locations to be very standardised, and
I've never had much trouble compiling anything much (well certainly nothing
that was distribution-related).  What problems have you struck?

Geoff.