On 2006-07-19, Oliver Wong <owong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> "Linonut" <linonut@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:242dnWSRnZpczSPZnZ2dnUVZ_rudnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Oliver Wong belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>>
>>>
>>> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:1386483.hj2j3sZzWV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>
>>>> Try LyX < http://www.lyx.org/ >. It's merely a front-end (not a true
>>>> WYSIWYG
>>>> as there is no confining frame, e.g. A4 paper). Been happy with it since
>>>> 2001 and part of the community since 2005. I rarely have to code
>>>> directly
>>>> in
>>>> TeX owing to this splendid piece of free, Free, stable, and
>>>> cross-platform
>>>> application.
>>>
>>> Thanks, I took a look at it last night, and from the textual
>>> description, it sounded really nice (wish there were some screenshots or
>>> something though). Unfortunately, it looked like I had to install a whole
>>> slew of other software to get this working (Python, QT, etc.) and I was
>>> just
>>> feeling lazy that night. I like just double clicking on a single
>>> installer
>>> and having it take care of everything for me. I guess my Microsoft roots
>>> are
>>> showing, huh? ;)
>>
>> Perhaps, since you don't seem to realize that distro installers will
>> download and install the dependencies for you as well.
>>
>> Pretty much as easy as a double-click, Ollie!
>
> That works great when the software you want is available via the package
> manager of your distribution, but I'll occasionally come across software
> that I'm expected to... *shivers* compile myself!
apt-get install libfoo.*
Repeat as needed for whatever dangling dependencies your
compile-it-yourself software needs. A good binary packaging system
makes installing stuff from source dead simple.
The dependencies are the only potentially hard part of course.
While ./configure; make; make install certainly looks
intimidating, it's hardly difficult.
...although it's all an edge case for a major distribution
anyways (Redhat, Suse, Mandriva, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo).
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