Steve Lamb wrote:
Harsh. Some credit must go to the entrepreneurial spirit of he whose choice (big free software term, right?) it is to do things by the seat of his pants.I hate to say it but this isn't a practical problem. This is a PEBKAC.
Why are these inadequate tools still there if not to be used? I'm not trying to be argumentative, I think it's a reasonable question. The beautiful aptitude can be used on even a bare minimum command-line installation on rock bottom hardware, so why keep all the superseded antiquities when we've clearly moved on?You're insisting on downloading individual files and installing them with the most basic of tools instead of availing yourself to several higher-level tools which take care of all that for you. Complaining that there are problems with the basic level tools which have have been solved years ago by the development of other, standard, tools is a problem of ignorance. Use apt, use aptitude (my suggestion), synaptic or any other higher level tool which takes care of dependencies for you. You'll save more time and trouble in the long run.