____/ Kelsey Bjarnason on Wednesday 23 April 2008 15:45 : \____
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:40:24 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> ____/ Kelsey Bjarnason on Wednesday 23 April 2008 12:08 : \____
>>
>>> I fired up my package manager. I selected "Koffice", clicked to accept
>>> a few dependencies, then selected "abiword" plus a plugins package.
>>> Total about six mouse clicks.
>>>
>>> Two more, the process commences downloading the files, installing them,
>>> configuring them, doing all the necessary things.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile, I've got full-screen videos playing on the secondary monitor
>>> and I switched to Pan on the primary. Completely forgot about
>>> Synaptic.
>>>
>>> Couple of minutes later, I noticed it sitting in the taskbar, switched
>>> to it and voila; it's completed. An entire office suite plus an
>>> additional word processor, plus plugins, all installed with so little
>>> interaction I forgot it was even happening.
>>>
>>> Yeah, that's just _so_ freakin' hard to use.
>>
>> With something like yum or apt you don't even need to move a peripheral
>> (mouse). You type in the application's name and wait (or do something
>> else). It's like tens of gigabytes of Free apps are already there on
>> your desktop and you just need to summon them.
>
> $povray
> The program 'povray' is currently not installed. You can install it by
> typing:
> sudo apt-get install povray
>
> Not quite one-click install, but getting there. ;)
Tripe-click the third line, press the middle mouse button, ENTER.
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