Here is really the worst issue I have found. Like many people, I have a Linux partition and a Windows partition that is used mainly for games. I have installed the 8.0 release of Mandrake (an install that was, by the way, astonishingly simple) and have had no problems at all with any of the software that was installed by Mandrake. If I see an interesting game out on sourceforge that I would like to try, though, it becomes a comedy of errors.
-Download rpm to the desktop. Double-click to extract. It completes. Go to the directory to run it. Double-clicks to the executable do nothing.
-Open a console. Run it from the CLI. It crashes with a library not found error. Turns out the executable is using a programmer's library I don't have.
-Go download the library. It's only available as source. I try to compile it. Woops! Guess I didn't install any development tools when I installed Mandrake.
-Install the development tools from the Mandrake disks. Try to compile the library. What a shock-it's missing a different library, and won't compile.
At this point I've decided I don't need to see Tux trying to find herring this badly (a solid hour has been wasted so far), and I've gone back to Windows to play Serious Sam. Honestly, I don't mind dinking with the system or learning how to use it. Going on a goose chase for files that it seems should ship with the executables, though, is maddening.
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Here is really the worst issue I have found. Like many people, I have a Linux partition and a Windows partition that is used mainly for games. I have installed the 8.0 release of Mandrake (an install that was, by the way, astonishingly simple) and have had no problems at all with any of the software that was installed by Mandrake. If I see an interesting game out on sourceforge that I would like to try, though, it becomes a comedy of errors.
-Download rpm to the desktop. Double-click to extract. It completes. Go to the directory to run it. Double-clicks to the executable do nothing.
-Open a console. Run it from the CLI. It crashes with a library not found error. Turns out the executable is using a programmer's library I don't have.
-Go download the library. It's only available as source. I try to compile it. Woops! Guess I didn't install any development tools when I installed Mandrake.
-Install the development tools from the Mandrake disks. Try to compile the library. What a shock-it's missing a different library, and won't compile.
At this point I've decided I don't need to see Tux trying to find herring this badly (a solid hour has been wasted so far), and I've gone back to Windows to play Serious Sam. Honestly, I don't mind dinking with the system or learning how to use it. Going on a goose chase for files that it seems should ship with the executables, though, is maddening.