tnek
December 3rd, 2008, 11:24 AM
Hi,
I thought this could be a thread in the same sense as "list the most useful applications" where people could bounce ideas off each other.
Of course I think we all agree that automatic installation where dependencies and upgrades will be handled for us is one of the truly great things with a lot (almost everyone has some kind of system like this) of Linux distributions.
As I'm still (and probably will be for a few years) too inexperienced when it comes to APT, dpkg and all that I won't be able to answer "How do you handle these?". I'm hoping that more experienced users will express their opinions on that question. I do have answers for the first two questions and my motivations: (I'm running Hardy.)
Drupal (http://drupal.org/) as I wanted version 6.x and not 5.x which is in the repositories. Drupal has its own automatic upgrade system which I think will work fine. I want version 6.x as I might create some modules of my own and I want the latest stable version so that its API won't be too old when I get around to programming.
Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/) as I want the latest version which is compatible with the latest plug-ins. It also has its own upgrade system. It's important to me to be running the same version as a couple of other developers as we're checking in the project files into SVN, and not just the source code. I don't want any incompatibilities due to us having different versions.
OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/), again I want the latest version. This time as 3.x has better MS Office compatibility and when I send documents to people the sad fact is they're most often expecting a Word file, and I can't start the revolution. I can't test it in the real MS Word so upgrading to 3.x will increase my chances that my documents will look as intended.
Awesome (http://awesome.naquadah.org/) window manager. Yet again I want the latest version. Version 3.x has been stable for a while now and I don't want to invest too much time in learning an obsolete configuration file format for 2.x, which I'll have to throw out and learn a different format for 3.x. I've tried 2.x. and it seemed really nice and I want to get on to the Awesome train, but I want 3.x.
I want to use APT for everything else, at least at the moment.
I've already handled the Drupal installation by following the insallation instructions. I had to configure Apache a little bit to allow .htaccess files to override a setting Drupal needed. But that wasn't a big problem.
Do you have any tips on how I should handle the other manual installations? What software do you install manually? And why?
I thought this could be a thread in the same sense as "list the most useful applications" where people could bounce ideas off each other.
Of course I think we all agree that automatic installation where dependencies and upgrades will be handled for us is one of the truly great things with a lot (almost everyone has some kind of system like this) of Linux distributions.
As I'm still (and probably will be for a few years) too inexperienced when it comes to APT, dpkg and all that I won't be able to answer "How do you handle these?". I'm hoping that more experienced users will express their opinions on that question. I do have answers for the first two questions and my motivations: (I'm running Hardy.)
Drupal (http://drupal.org/) as I wanted version 6.x and not 5.x which is in the repositories. Drupal has its own automatic upgrade system which I think will work fine. I want version 6.x as I might create some modules of my own and I want the latest stable version so that its API won't be too old when I get around to programming.
Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/) as I want the latest version which is compatible with the latest plug-ins. It also has its own upgrade system. It's important to me to be running the same version as a couple of other developers as we're checking in the project files into SVN, and not just the source code. I don't want any incompatibilities due to us having different versions.
OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/), again I want the latest version. This time as 3.x has better MS Office compatibility and when I send documents to people the sad fact is they're most often expecting a Word file, and I can't start the revolution. I can't test it in the real MS Word so upgrading to 3.x will increase my chances that my documents will look as intended.
Awesome (http://awesome.naquadah.org/) window manager. Yet again I want the latest version. Version 3.x has been stable for a while now and I don't want to invest too much time in learning an obsolete configuration file format for 2.x, which I'll have to throw out and learn a different format for 3.x. I've tried 2.x. and it seemed really nice and I want to get on to the Awesome train, but I want 3.x.
I want to use APT for everything else, at least at the moment.
I've already handled the Drupal installation by following the insallation instructions. I had to configure Apache a little bit to allow .htaccess files to override a setting Drupal needed. But that wasn't a big problem.
Do you have any tips on how I should handle the other manual installations? What software do you install manually? And why?