Re: Problems with GNUe under Vista 64

Duane Kaufman wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Duane Kaufman, and I am new to GNUe. I thought I would give 
> it a test drive on a Vista64 machine here at work.
>
> I installed the Windows binaries (Question: is this the _only_ 
> sanctioned way to install this, or can I install source, if I meet the 
> dependencies?)
No, you can install from source if you prefer. As you say, you then have 
to resolve the dependencies yourself, and without the aid of a nice 
package management system like apt or rpm. But if you want to run 
anything other than the most recent release version (e.g. release 
candidates or even the nightly snapshots), this is the better way of 
doing it. The Windows binaries are there simply as an alternative for 
wusses and Windows users (bearing in mind these two groups tend to be 
fairly closely co-related -- especially if I'm anything to go by!).

I would have sworn that there was a list of dependencies, along with 
links to some of the harder-to-find ones, somewhere on the website. But 
of course now I'm looking for it, I can't actually find it...

-- 
Peter Sullivan <[email protected]>