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The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment (Content Consumer)The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment (Content Consumer)Posted Apr 28, 2008 18:01 UTC (Mon) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)In reply to: The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment (Content Consumer) by madscientist Parent article: The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment (Content Consumer)
A better solution is to teach users that, if you want to install something, you use the package manager, pretty much no matter what it is. It's much more likely to actually work than letting some other program do it, and it means that regular system updates will maintain it.
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The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment (Content Consumer) Posted Apr 28, 2008 18:43 UTC (Mon) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link] Not sure if you're aware, but the automatic flash plugin we're talking about IS using the standard Ubuntu package manager. There was a special project to integrate FireFox's plugin update utility with dpkg, so that it goes out to the Ubuntu repository, obtains the DEB package, and installs that. This is the thing we're discussing, that does not work with YouTube for the reasons I mentioned. Sure it might be considered simpler to go to Add/Remove packages but people are used to having their browser tell them what they need and offering to install it for them. There are good reasons why that's problematic (security is an obvious one) but it's also extremely handy. The FF integration is/was a great step in the right direction, until it was subverted by helpful web servers.
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