On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 11:25 -0700, Evolution List wrote:
5) That's it :-)LOL Just as an aside....man do I ever feel sorry for someone coming to Linux from the Windows world and finding themselves having to become a sort of CLI programmer to get a program installed from source.
Running commands from a prompt is *not* being a "CLI programmer". To compare programming with running a few commands from a prompt is the height of know-nothingness.
Heaven help us :).
Sigh.
Don't know if the original poster is from the Windows world or not mind you :). Your instructions were well thought out and right on but the phrase "That's it" reminds me of what people used to tell me on the Gentoo forum. "It's easy to install. No sweat!" LOL. I went through the Linux CLI learning curve myself a couple of years ago but boy oh boy! There's were lots of times that I felt like cursing the day Linux came into existence as an operating system :).
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