Sir Humpsalot said:
I'm a newb to linux, don't really understand all the commands and stuff, but I'm slowly learning with kubuntu.
Glad to hear it.
GNU/Linux is a great system I think. I love the freedom, the control and the stability. I've been using GNU/Linux for about 5 years now and I miss nothing from Windows.
Don't worry if you didn't understand those commands, they're "advanced" and taking the time to learn them probably will yeild VERY little benefit for you. The quickest way to use qbrew is as z987k and install the version in the repos. You can use the command he gave or you can use Adept to install it, just search for "qbrew".
As you use any GNU/Linux system, you'll learn more about it, that's just the way it happens. Eventually, you'll come to a point where your needs go beyond those of the distro you're using and you'll have to take matters into your own hands. Until you have that need though, it's more enjoyable to keep it simple.
Yeah building a deb is not that hard, I could maintain the damn thing from the official source.
Awesome. I have to say though, personally, I've seen some horrific Ubuntu packages. I'm a Debian user, but I do respect Ubuntu to a certain extent (unlike some Debianistas)... However, some of the packages in "universe" actually fail to build if you grab the source and try to compile. I've never seen that happen in Debian because they quite strictly follow the Maintainers Guide - it's also why I've not seriously looked into becoming a Debian maintainer... I simply don't have the energy to keep that level of quality up.
z987k said:
oh, btw, your to late with the getting the source package from debian and building it into a deb. configure, make, make install is pretty easy.
True, it's scary at first but it's quite easy. It does, however, have some drawbacks. Firstly, source installs aren't managed by apt so apt doesn't realize when it removes things vital to programs you built yourself. Secondly, source can't update itself. Thirdly, it's not easy to remove source applications unless you install to a prefix (I use /opt/program-name/version) but doing that requires a little bit of "extra" work to get things working.
Those thigns, coupled with not knowing your level of experience, said i should probably mention the way that wouldn't add additional maintainance issues for you.
But if that's not a problem, more power to ya!
Kevin Dean said:
I've e-mailed the listed mainter of the applications and we'll see what happens... It won't ever make it into Gutsy, but perhaps I can ensure it stays current in Hardy.
Tobias responded today and informed me that qbrew 0.4.0 was synced with Debain yesterday in Hardy so expect it to be availible from an Ubuntu repo hopefully by tomorrow.