[ubuntu-za] Designing a GUI front end for PostgreSQL

[Lee Sharp]

wayne wrote:
> Wow, this has been a very interesting thread to follow, No really! For
> me it's been Dejavu.
> And if I can add if I may,this is one of our biggest mountains to climb.
> Scene: Here we have a gentleman, who would simply have a DB with GUI
> interface to insert data etc, etc.
> 
> And here we are, running the biggest and latest and greatest, DB's, Uber
> Systems, etc, and we can't sort him out.
> 
> Jonathan is correct, we cannot expect people to pick up a PHP
> book,howto, whatever and start coding.
> Firstly, how are we going to get people to realise, Linux is a learning
> curve, no short cuts here unfortunately, and one cannot start with the
> "hard stuff" without at least having a clue if the server is actually
> running or not.

I am in total agreement, and have posted similar things to bug1.  Linux 
is not a learning curv, but a learning cliff. :)  But once over the top, 
it is amazing.

> As to pointing to Howto's, it great but I've yet to find a identical
> one, and most importantly most newbies have not learned the power of
> search, read and search and read some more.
> 
> OK, Enough thread high-jacking from me, Ian, *Please* persevere, you
> will not be sorry, every one of us has been there,
> 
> I would install:
> sudo aptitude install mysql-server mysql-client phpmyadmin

And to add yet another way... 'sudo tasksel'  Lots of preconfigured 
tasks there, including a LAMP server. (Linux Apache MySQL PHP)  Actually 
quite a lot.  One of the powerfull secrets of Ubuntu.

			Lee