2009-10-23, 17:46
wattazoum Wrote:Yes, it's true that my way of packaging causes the creation of multiple packages. This is to let the possibility to customize your installation of xbmc.
Removing is easy as removing the lower package (xbmc-common) . This causes the removal of everything.
If you do that, it means that either you know what you are doing. Currently, trying to install earlier versions from the PPA is very difficult. In fact I am even surprised that Launchpad still keeps the older packages for a so long time.
This is why I said in the first post that the SVN ppa where for bleeding edge users, which means highly unstable.
More generally, while in windows you will have one file for installing a software, in Linux you will have multiple ones. This is because the libraries are reused on Linux, while they are duplicated in windows. If you have 2 software on windows requiring python, python will be installed twice on different places. On Linux, you will have 3 packages: one for python and one for each software.
In general I find it easier to install a software in Linux than in windows. You don't need to go in a website to search for you softare, you search on synaptic, and the software will be downloaded. You don't need to open a browser, to download the file yourself ...
Thanks for the explanation.
I guess being new means having question. Appreciate your response.
Having an interesting time exploring things.
So in other words, simply apt-get remove xbmc [press tab] ?
Understand the bleeding edge type But nevertheless i read the updates day by day and there are improvements as well as bugs from builds to builds but nevertheless, I could never resist if i see some major improvements from fixes and patches Guess that is why I have questions hehe