15 Dec
2011
15 Dec
'11
10:19 a.m.
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
My reaction the first time I tried to install the Sun JVM and it
popped up this interactive thing was a loud and resounding WTF?
I'm wrestling right now with a scripted JVM install (for a server) and
lack of examples for doing that exact thing for the 32-bit version of
the JRE on a 64-bit machine (required because of the needs of the Java
app).
I love UNIX. This is not one of the fun parts of it, but I'd rather
be doing this than what most of the IT world does everyday.
-ethan
> I've
NEVER seen such a "wizard" pop up, in probably two hundred runs of
> "apt-get install".
Oh yes, there are quite a few of those (now that I understand what he
means). Examples:
- msttcorefonts
- Sun JVM
- gdm, lightdm or other change of dm