Re: [Sheflug] Awful world of JPEG

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Sun, 28 May 2000, Harvey Kelly wrote:

> > > Alex:  I don't know what to say as regards my system being buggered
> > I think I was only saying that in the case of you removing the rpm and it
> > still not working? Is that actually the case with your system?
> Nope, everything's fine now.

In that case; your system's not buggered ;))) 

> Yes, I'd agree.  But the one I downloaded was far too complex for the likes of
> me.  And I can't seem to locate another. 

It's usually not too bad; just a case of './configure', '[su -c] make
install', and that's it. 

> > There shouldn't be, no. Although, there could be ;). To be honest, I
> > don't use the rpm system myself, I find it to be a little bit of a blunt
> > tool. 
> Ooh, maybe sometime in the future I'd have the skills/knowledge to be able to
> write something like that!  And no, I'm not being at all sarcastic - I really
> do.

Heh ;) I usually find that people hate compiling from source, and for the
first few attempts absolutely nothing works. Then, suddenly, something
clicks and it's all fabulous. At least, that's the way it was for me. You
don't particularly have to know how to program - I don't personally go
around fixing people's programs for them. About the most I've ever done
was put a '\' in front of some quote marks that someone left out in a
printf() statement, I don't usually fix real bugs unless I really want the
software. That said, it's been ages since I've downloaded something that
didn't compile properly first time.

Cheers,

Alex.



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