What if I install ALL libraries?

[Alaric]

I've been thinking about installing EVERY library in apt, just so that installations don't take as long. I realize that this will waste a lot of space, but I think that it would be worth it to install anything I want without having to worry about installing a thousand little libraries for the compile. Anyways, would there be anything that would get completely screwed up by doing this? I have Ubuntu 6.06 and I'm going to use synaptic to get them all.

[devils casper]

i wont suggest you to do that. as you already realized, this will waste a lot of disk space and i am sure that you are not going to install all the packages available in repositories.
libraries are small in size and take much less time to install than the Package that needs those.





Casper

[Vergil83]

As long as you use synaptic (or apt-get) it shouldn't break anything. I don't understand why you would do it, but you computer = your rules

[Alaric]

yeah, even though I'm a newbie, I'm reluctant to do it, I don't have that much space on my linux partition, but it seems like whenever I try to compile a program, it never just WORKS. I always have to run around for like half an hour figuring out what the exact name of the package I need to compile successfully is. Then it usually ends up that something else is wrong after I FINALLY find and install the package. That's my major gripe with Linux, nothing seems to work out of the box. Yeah, I know that Linux is meant to make you get down and dirty and find out what's going on behind the scenes, but when I'm looking to install stuff, I don't want it to take an entire day of researching just to install the stupid thing. So unless someone can suggest a better way of getting Linux to just work, then I think I'll be cleaning some of my high-gig-count games off of my Windows partition to install these things...

[devils casper]

most packages are available in repositories and you dont need to complie. which packages your are trying to install/compile?







Casper

[PostalDude]

Yeah im having simalar problems with the lack of libaries (this has happened alot with my last 2 SuSE installs). Is there any good libary sites out there? I have tried google, but I get results that dont work, or are for wrong distro. Thanks in advance!

[Alaric]

I don't mean that I am having trouble with packages from aptitude, I love apt-get. However, programs that only come in the .tar.gz format are almost more trouble than they're worth... Considering that I'm not an experienced programmer.

[Vergil83]

I don't mean that I am having trouble with packages from aptitude, I love apt-get. However, programs that only come in the .tar.gz format are almost more trouble than they're worth... Considering that I'm not an experienced programmer.

What casper is asking is do you really install that many packages that are only come in tar.gz? Ubuntu has +15,000 programs.....

[Alaric]

Yeah, I realize that aptitude has a lot of packages but as recently as yesterday I found packages that didn't come in .deb format. Being able to install from sour ce is essential, especially if I want to learn to program well.

[devils casper]

which package you couldn't find?
installing from source is easy too. read README file that comes with source and follow instructions. if you have all the dependencies installed, a few commands ( ./configure, make, make install) complie and install the package.




Casper