Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 22nd Feb 2007 23:24 UTC, submitted by Andrzej Ptak
There are currently at least five popular ways of installing software in GNU/Linux. None of them are widely accepted throughout the popular distributions. This situation is not a problem for experienced users - they can make decisions for themselves. However, for a newcomer in the GNU/Linux world, installing new software is always pretty confusing. The article tries to sum up some of the recent efforts to fix this problem and examine the possible future of packaging software in GNU/Linux.
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2005-11-12
Have we have this conversation before but i'll say again. I'd rather use something like synaptic package manager than go looking around the net for looking for software, what is the problem?
Besides alot of software what you need is installed anyway on most distros, so don't need to go outside the package manager.