9 Aug
2005
9 Aug
'05
12:54 p.m.
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 07:31 -0700, Mike Jewell wrote:
Here's more of a philosophical question. Can
someone help me
understand why installing an app like Gnome Wave Cleaner on a
"standard", clean Linux distribution like my Fedora Core 3 from CCRMA
is so d??n difficult? Shouldn't all these libraries, etc just already
be there? I can maybe understand the unusual ones like
"fftw" (Fastest Fourier Transform in the West) but why all the missing
Gnome components? It's probably only me that's missing something but
it seems to me that Linux is never going to become even close to
mainstream (maybe we don't want it to be mainstream) until it gets a
good, consistent across all distros, way of installing apps that just
works.
Your FC3 should have come with a Gnome desktop by default, so all those
libraries should already be present.
Besides, doesn't RPM automatically resolve dependencies yet? You should
be able to just RPM install gnome-wave-cleaner and all the dependent
packages will be installed for you.
Lee