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Re: how about making upgrades easier
by not me on Wednesday 11/Apr/2001, @13:59

>And "just" downloading everything and recompiling everything is a huge pain in the ass IMHO. I have yet to successfully compile KDE from start to finish without hitting all kinds of strange problems.

I hear you! I've never been able to get KDE to compile.

>Sorry if I'm ranting, but I've spent *far* more time nursing KDE upgrades along than I ever spent rebooting my Windows machine.

Yeah, you sound like me, before I switched to Debian. Then suddenly, all my KDE problems magically went away. Now I get KDE upgrades *before* they've been announced on Slashdot, and they always install over the previous version perfectly, keeping all of my settings. I even have anti-aliased text in KDE, with _NO_ effort whatsoever! A simple command (apt-get install task-kde) finds, downloads, installs, and configures KDE _and_ all its dependencies, in one gigantic automated step! apt-get and kde.debian.net are the greatest!

Sorry if I sound like a broken record here, but I just can't get over the incredible coolness of apt-get. I recommend that you try Debian out (or for an easier graphical install, try that Progeny Debian that was just released).

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