Installing opensource software.
By henry140468
@henry140468 (323)
India
October 6, 2008 7:11am CST
All of you know that there are three populer methods for installing software into your system.
1.Debian packages
2.RPM's
3.Compiling from the source.
Which method do you prefer?Why?
I personally like installing the .deb packages as I don't have care about dependencies.But I feel the real freedom which opensource gives us when I am compiling from the source.It is great to know that we can build an entire software from the source code.
2 responses
@chiangkl (12)
• Malaysia
16 Nov 08
Debian package and RPM (using YUM or other Repository Manager) will handle dependency well.
Compiling from source is always difficult especially for linux newbies.
However, some experience linux users may prefer compiling from source, it gives them full control of what to include or exclude. Software can be compiled and execute in a more efficient manner.
@henry140468 (323)
• India
19 Nov 08
using yum is very good method as it solves your dependency problems.
@budiwijaya (28)
• Indonesia
3 Jan 10
I'm prefer using .deb. Because of the simplicity solving the dependencies.
Last time I use RPM package was in RedHat 9. It's about year 2003.
Compiling from the source is what i'm avoiding. Because it's complicated and whenever there's an security update, you must compile it again. With .deb you just type "apt-get upgrade", and all of your program are updated.
