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10.5 on ubuntu 10.4
killerbot:
why is ubuntu such a pain in the ass. I have seen people for installing certain stuff really being going through hell to get something on ubuntu. I thought it was the dummy , easy, out of the box distro.
And the thing is, who gets a bad name, CB, since it doesn't work out of the box on ubuntu :-(
ubuntu seams really to be the Microsoft windows replacement , nothing but troubles. ;-)
kencamargo:
--- Quote from: killerbot on June 12, 2010, 06:31:55 pm ---why is ubuntu such a pain in the ass.
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I don't want to start a distro war, but you couldn't be more wrong. The problems people are having with Ubuntu are due to (a) the decision to link the 10.5 binaries with non-standard wxWidget libraries; (b) terse wording on the homepage on how to get around that and (c) first and foremost (pardon my French) sheer laziness of people that can't/won't do a search for tons of available info (many of them on this thread) that would solve the problem.
I don't think that the first item is a problem in itself, btw.
Ken
Jenna:
--- Quote from: kencamargo on June 12, 2010, 11:20:06 pm ---
--- Quote from: killerbot on June 12, 2010, 06:31:55 pm ---why is ubuntu such a pain in the ass.
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I don't want to start a distro war, but you couldn't be more wrong. The problems people are having with Ubuntu are due to (a) the decision to link the 10.5 binaries with non-standard wxWidget libraries;
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As first: with almost every new ubuntu versions (at least since 9.04) there are problems (spacebar, wxWidgets). And they all are not made by C::B.
The problem with the wxWidgets libs is, that ubuntu seems to break binary compatibility with the libraries provided by wxWidgets itself (the debian binaries we provide are linked against them and they work flawlessly for any debian distro until now, even debian testing/unstable with it's own wxWidgets libs).
The real problem is that it looks like they partly break compatibilty with debian, the distro ubuntu is based on, and the common user relies on this compatibility.
pasgui:
--- Quote from: killerbot on June 12, 2010, 06:31:55 pm ---why is ubuntu such a pain in the ass. I have seen people for installing certain stuff really being going through hell to get something on ubuntu. I thought it was the dummy , easy, out of the box distro.
And the thing is, who gets a bad name, CB, since it doesn't work out of the box on ubuntu :-(
ubuntu seams really to be the Microsoft windows replacement , nothing but troubles. ;-)
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I've build C::B for Ubuntu (Karmic and Lucid) for i386 and amd64 based on the wxWidgets provided by Ubuntu: http://lgp203.free.fr/ubuntu/, http://lgp203.free.fr/spip/spip.php?article1
regards, pasgui
kencamargo:
--- Quote from: pasgui on June 14, 2010, 09:47:57 am ---I've build C::B for Ubuntu (Karmic and Lucid) for i386 and amd64 based on the wxWidgets provided by Ubuntu: http://lgp203.free.fr/ubuntu/, http://lgp203.free.fr/spip/spip.php?article1
regards, pasgui
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And it works perfectly - merci beaucoup pour ça!
Ken
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