Newbie Install Question

[Lindsay]

It look better every time I view it Winton - congrats.
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 17:19 +1030, squareyes wrote:
> Rich Rudnick wrote:
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> >On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 13:42 -0600, Tab Gilbert wrote:
> >  
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> >>If I spoke the "language" I am sure could articulate myself better. 
> >>No, I do not enjoy this but  expected a certain amount of "learning"
> >>to occur.  I just thought it would be a little more user friendly. 
> >>Installing a simple program should not be so major and I am surpised
> >>there is not a real step-by-step instruction list that I can find.  If
> >>I could ever figure this stuff out I would be glad to post it on the
> >>Ubuntu site cause this is just a normal problem for a newbie.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >What you're trying to do is never really going to be a 'newbie friendly'
> >operation. Compiling programs (the configure, make, sudo make install
> >process James Grey described) is not something that is going to be
> >amenable to 'step by step' instructions, since each program has it's own
> >dependencies, quirks, bugs, documentation errors, etc, etc, and each of
> >these things will change how the program gets compiled. That's what a
> >linux distribution does for you -- the maintainers figure out how the
> >program needs to be compiled so you don't have to :)
> >
> >You might be better off describing just what you want the program to do
> >for you; maybe someone can recommend one already in ubuntu that will do
> >the job. 
> >
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> >
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> Hi Rich,
> for most things you would better off using Synaptic for installing 
> applications,
> for configuration try "System Configuration" in the Computer menu (if 
> you are using Warty)
> Have a look at URL below, may help.
> 
> http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/squareyes/ubuntu.html
> 
> I tried to make it from my experience as a newbie.
> Once you get a handle on Ubuntu you won't want to go back to Windows.
> Take Care
> Winton
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