Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!
Hi, Daniel!
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 09:14:10PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 03:00:52PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> was heard to say: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:54:55PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > > > In the real world, nobody I know has got any sort of GNU/Linux
> > > > installed and working in a few days. Most have tried and given
> > > > up after a weekend or two, going back to a Microsoft system.
> > > > Those few who have managed have, like me, endured weeks of
> > > > drudgery. Only on internet blogs do I read "Wow!" reports about
> > > > how it works perfectly an hour and a half after inserting the
> > > > installation DVD.
> > > Well, my first Debian installation was from a pile of floppies,
> > > so I'm not going to be able to comment intelligently on how hard
> > > or easy today's process is.
> > :-) That appears somewhat evasive.
> Only in the sense that I don't want to get into a pointless
> argu^H^H^H^Hdiscussion about the totally subjective question of whether
> installing Debian is "hard" for two different people with different
> skills and requirements (namely you and me), especially when I don't
> work on the installation system and I can't fix any of your problems
> for you.
OK, fair enough!
> Moreover, it's been ten years since I installed Debian for the first
> time and I don't trust my memory to tell me precisely what the
> conditions were at the time or how long it took me. A few things I do
> remember having trouble with, like getting basic access to email (which
> required configuring an MTA), getting X working, and getting a printer
> hooked up, are so easy nowadays that it's barely worth remarking on
> them.
These all caused me moderate or severe pain with sarge in 2006. Maybe
it's only the first debian installation anybody does which is so hard. I
hope so!
Anyhow, it seems time to finish this thread, now. Thanks for all the
comments.
> Daniel
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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