Re: [jokosher-devel] Jokosher packages on other distributions

["Francis Giannaros" <francis giannaros org>]

On 6/12/07, Laszlo Pandy <laszlok2 gmail com> wrote:
> Francis Giannaros wrote:
> > Looks like the site was updated but it still has:
> >
> >> Installing on something other than Ubuntu
> >>       Source Tarball  DOWNLOAD
> >
> > This is a bit of a shame as Jokosher is even easier to set up on other
> > distributions (or has been for a long time) than it is on Ubuntu. The
> > message implies that all other users need to compile it, which just
> > isn't true. There are even far more helpful instructions for other
> > distributions already on http://userdocs.jokosher.org/Installation as
> > well.
> >
> > No chance of other distributions getting a helpful message on there?
> > I'm curious as to why it's so exclusive =)
> >
> > Kind thoughts,
> >
>
> As far as I know, Ubuntu is the only distribution where you can click on
>   a package in Firefox, click OK, click Install, type in your password
> and have everything installed perfectly. Thus this is the only package
> that we directly linked to.
> I am not saying that installing on other
> distros is not as easy, its just that I (and most if not all of the
> Jokosher dev team) use Ubuntu and only Ubuntu and so I wouldn't know how
> to do it elsewhere.

As I said, a couple of people from other distributions already
mentioned that packages from distro x and y are available some time
ago, and linked to instructions (as I did in the first post of this
thread) already.

> If you or anyone else would like the be in charge of making it easy to
> install on your distro, send an official sounding set of instructions
> suitable for the jokosher.org/download page as well the link(s) to the
> package(s) to the mailing list, and we'll see that it gets put on the site.

Thanks, that would be great :). The instructions are on
http://userdocs.jokosher.org/JokosherOnSuse are good enough I think.

Kind thoughts,
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Francis Giannaros   http://francis.giannaros.org