[Nottingham] 64 bit linux (K/Ubuntu)

[Paul Sladen]

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Richard Street wrote:

Hello Richard,

> 1. There is no 'Development' setup available - you have to hunt down
> gcc, make, autoconf, pygtk, libstdc++ etc,etc when you want to compile

Oh, quite the opposite, Debian/Ubuntu make things *easy*:

  sudo apt-get install build-essential    # gcc, make, autocrack ...

Packages have a list of their build-dependances (the libraries and other
programs required to recreate them from source).  If you want to compile the
program 'foobar2000' then you can fetch everything required with:

  sudo apt-get build-dep foobar2000

If you want to the source code:

  sudo apt-get source foobar2000
  cd foobar2000-*/
  debuild
  dpkg -i ../foobar2000_*.deb

> 2. A recent update to (I think) pmount has left me having to manually 
> mount and dismount flash disks and other hot-pluggable media.

Is this in the development release ('dapper'?).

> she is stuck (and she 'aint getting the root password - no way!).

Urm, there shouldn't be a root password!  That's just making life hard;  
welcome to the wonder world of 'sudo' and a proper granulated permissions
system.  :-)

	-Paul
-- 
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