Duane Kaufman wrote:
Hello,
My name is Duane Kaufman, and I am new to GNUe. I thought I would
give it a test drive on a Vista64 machine here at work.
I installed the Windows binaries (Question: is this the _only_
sanctioned way to install this, or can I install source, if I meet
the dependencies?)
No, you can install from source if you prefer. As you say, you then
have to resolve the dependencies yourself, and without the aid of a
nice package management system like apt or rpm. But if you want to run
anything other than the most recent release version (e.g. release
candidates or even the nightly snapshots), this is the better way of
doing it. The Windows binaries are there simply as an alternative for
wusses and Windows users (bearing in mind these two groups tend to be
fairly closely co-related -- especially if I'm anything to go by!).
I would have sworn that there was a list of dependencies, along with
links to some of the harder-to-find ones, somewhere on the website. But
of course now I'm looking for it, I can't actually find it...