A couple of years of experience have taught me there are many ways to install software into Linux. Most of those methods are as easy as fishing for piranhas with a horse for bait - it's quick and painless (for the fisherman, absolute nightmare for the horse) and a few of them are as enjoyable as listening to your tone deaf sister do karaoke without a background track - it goes on for ever and ever and ever and causes your ears to close shop and move to another body. A couple of days ago I was stuck down with a couple of those convoluted and very painful installation … [Read more...]