[GRASS-user] Re: Gui error behind splash screen

[Daniel Victoria]

I was hopping I would not have to resort to compiling everything from
source. I recall that a while ago a simple apt-get would be enough to
get everything working just fine in Ubuntu. Now that was friendly...

Daniel

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Nikos Alexandris
<nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 16:25 +0200, Maris Nartiss wrote:
>>
>> Another GRASS+Ubuntu segfault. Use search to get more info. In short:
>> remove GRASS and all of it's dependencies and complie new ones FROM
>> SOURCE! (or choose some better user-friendly distribution like Gentoo)
>>
>> Maris.
>
> [...]
>
> Sorry for breaking-in to your discussion.
>
> I want to confirm that through my small experience with Ubuntu and
> osgeo-tools, I have seen several times segfault problems. Things are
> really better when compiling from source.
>
> About the "Gentoo and user-friendly" argument: it could use a ";-)"
> smiley :-).
>
> FWIW:
> Seriously, I don't doubt about it being *real user-friendly*. But most
> people tend to identify user-friendly systems as systems that just work
> out-of-box. Since there are different views it is necessary to define
> what one understands as *user-friendly* and what not. Anyhow, I think
> that Gentoo, is definitely NOT for a new-comer in the FOSS4G field.
>
> Kind Regards, Nikos
>
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