Look what I found, Why wasn't it installed

[Steve Holmes]

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Karen,

Debian and Redhat seem to have the largest number of pre-compiled
packages for their distros.  Slackware doesn't have as many but that
doesn't bother me much because I don't mind compiling from sources and
crawling under the hood from time to time.  This thread was dealing
with some issues with Redhat (now called Fedora).  I personally have
run into some problems with some prebuilt packages as the builder of
said package left some options or features out and I ended up having
to compile and install the original source in order to get those
features.  Example of this was PHP for Slackware; the package was not
built with postgres support and I needed that.  The only way to fix
that was to compile from sources.  Obviously, one could probably do
the same thing if this happened in a Redhat environment.  Packages are
good when starting out or for getting the basic system going before
our fun and games begin:).

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 06:08:10PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> <newbie raises hand>
> which package does as you describe?
> before i have heard that
> linux distributions really depend on choice,
> and I am more  the pre-package type than the compile myself type.
> so am wondering, or are you saying all distributions come with this?
> Karen
> 
> On Wed, 19 May 2004, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> >nick G writes:
> >>From: nick G <nick6489 at optonline.net>
> >>
> >>The subject says it all, I found Lynx.  Sorry about that bogus Claim.  I 
> >>based it on what Anaconda did for my system.
> >>Thanks,
> >
> >May I remind you of what we write in the HOWTO on this subject? Our
> >words are not gratuitous. They're there for a reason. Here's a quote a
> >pro pos this very subject:
> >
> >"     * You'll be asked what kind of installation you want to perform.
> >This screen offers the following selections: Personal Desktop,
> >Workstation, Server,
> >      Laptop, Custom, Update. We very strongly advice that you choose
> >      "Server." Unfortunately, the "Personal Desktop," "Workstation"
> >      and "Laptop"
> >             installation classes skew their package and configuration
> >	      selections to GUI users, and this is highly
> >	      disadvantageous to the speech and braille
> >	             user who will find that some important, text-based
> >		     programs, like the Lynx world wide web browser, for
> >		     example, are not installed.
> >"		          * You will be asked what packages you wish to
> >			  * install. There's a very long list of
> >			  * available packages, and you could certainly
> >			  * add anything you
> >			         don't install now later, but this would
> >				 be a nuisance at best and tends to be
> >				 confusing to the BEGINNER. We recommend
> >				 you press the "end" key to
> >				        go to the last option which is
> >					"everything" if you have
> >					sufficient disk space. An
> >					"EVERYTHING" INSTALLATION
> >					REQUIRES APPROXIMATELY 8 gB, but
> >					it
> >					       will really provide
> >					       everything the blind user
> >					       needs. And, of particular
> >					       interest to blind users
> >					       today, it will install
> >					       GNOME and the Gnopernicus
> >					              screen reader for
> >						      you to use as
> >						      well. On the other
> >						      hand, if you're
> >						      short on space,
> >						      you'll find that
> >						      choosing the
> >						      "Server" class
> >						      installation in
> >						             the
> >							     preceding
> >							     step will
> >							     give you
> >							     almost all
> >							     of the
> >							     text-based
> >							     applications
> >							     you need."
> >
> >>Nick
> >>_______________________________________________
> >>Speakup mailing list
> >>Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> >>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> >--
> >
> >				Janina Sajka, Director
> >				Technology Research and Development
> >				Governmental Relations Group
> >				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> >
> >		Chair, Accessibility Workgroup
> >	Free Standards Group (FSG)
> >
> >Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >Speakup mailing list
> >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> 
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