Wine, Whine, installs, and the like
Steev Johnson
Steve at SuperCub.org
Thu Nov 8 20:34:21 CST 2001
Unfortunately, I have to deal with MAC OS too much already thank you.
It must be great to know everything.
sj
-----Original Message-----
From: D. Hageman [mailto:dhageman at dracken.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 2:27 PM
To: Steev Johnson
Cc: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: Wine, Whine, installs, and the like
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Steev Johnson wrote:
> I saw the posts on WINE and I thought about the fact that the only way
> I can bear installing software on Linux is to drink some wine first.
> Now
Well, if that is what you have to do then that is what you have to do.
I
recommend that if you think that you are becomming an alcoholic you
switch
to Mac OS. :-)
> Well, so does Linux.
No.
Depends on the distrobution you run and what the philosphy is. If you
get
a BSD style distro you will find that you have neat little directories
for
most major pieces of software with the binaries soft linked back into
your
path. RPM/DEB based distros do spread files around, but if you know how
to use your package tool you can find the files very easily.
rpm -ql <package>
> Let's take for example the MYSQL package as implemented under Trustix,
> or any other distribution for that matter. None of the RPMS really
> WORK to get it installed, there is still tons of Mickey mouse to make
> it work
> - if it ever does.
Well, sounds like you need to write the maintainers of the RPM and let
them know that their RPMs are broken.
> trying to figure out why safe_mysqld hangs. What every happened to
the
> glorious days of DOS when everything was in the same %$&! directory!?
> What was wrong with that?
Nothing, see above.
>
> Yes, I understand the shared data and the centralized config
> can/should be somewhere else, but this is just a mess! Whether it
> gets installed under /usr/bin or /usr/shared or usr/local or whatever
> seems to depend on how someone was feeling that day. Much like
> windows. At least with windows, I KNOW there are only a couple places
> other than the app directory that they are going to dump DLLs and the
> like.
And why ... because you have run Windows for so long. It is called
experience.
> cobol. If I can't figure this stuff out easily, how is the average
> sysop ever going to be able to deal with this?
No matter how I answer this question it will be bad. I will pass ;-)
Have fun!
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