Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: Lenny 5.0

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:07:28AM -0800, Jim Busser wrote:

> would it not be easier to just
>
>       apt-get install gnumed-client
>
> because even if it installed only 2.8.10-1 this should give the same  
> dependencies (I think)
That's clever advice :-))  It pulls in pretty much all the
packages one needs, indeed.

> unless there is some problem to install such an 
> earlier version.
Not that I know of offhand.

> Is there some advantage to installing ONLY the dependencies (without an 
> "old" client) and installing he client from tarball?
It saves a bit of disk space and bandwidth on apt-get upgrade.

> It seems to me that a tarball version will need to be launched from the 
> command line whether or not an apt-get installed version of the client 
> exists although I suppose it is possible in Linux / Debian / Gnome (or 
> other desktop) to link some script to a desktop icon?

Yes, one surely can (and the install scripts do) install a
versioned desktop shortcut.

Karsten
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