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| Authored by: Wol on Monday, April 08 2013 @ 08:10 PM EDT |
It could be what made me switch to gentoo.
I tried to install lilypond. I was running (the latest?) SuSE at the time.
lilypond required a bunch of stuff that was newer than the newest stuff in the
SuSE repository. Oops ...
You've only got to have a system running a 12-month-old distro version, and you
can easily run foul of software requiring newer versions than you've got.
So unless you're running something like gentoo, or Debian unstable, or SuSE
tumbleweed, or whatever, installing "out of band" software can be a
real pain.
Cheers,
Wol[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: soronlin on Tuesday, April 09 2013 @ 06:09 AM EDT |
I tried to install Steam recently, and it complained it needed a newer version
of libc. That's one of the libraries that isn't worth considering updating --
everything depends on it.
On the other hand, I am running Mint 11, which was obsoleted last October, so
it's not particularly surprising that it's now out of date. As soon as I get
some time when I don't _need_ the computer to be operational, I'll be installing
Mint Debian Edition, and get the rolling upgrade back. Two years is a rather
short cycle when you have to do a nuke and pave upgrade.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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