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Most common method for software installation?

Chart_bar a poll by Mark A. McBride (markmcb), published on 29 November 2009
other nerds have left 8 comments below

Rely on 3rd party to do it, e.g., friend, family
1
Go to store, buy boxed content, install from disc
5
Go to web site, download executable installer
39 (38%)
Open a package manager, let it install pre-compiled binaries
40 (39%)
Open a package manager, let it compile source code
7
Find source code, compile with custom options
10
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Package Manager for Binaries or Compilation = Nice by markmcb :: NR7

I’m a huge fan of Fedora and its yum package manager. There’s nothing quite like being able to just type “yum install firefox” and have the software go find it, install it, and also let you know about updates … oh yeah, and they’ve all been tested.

MacPorts on OS X is growing on me too, but I’m not always ready to wait on long compile times. Sometimes I’ll go to get something and its 15 upstream dependencies result in a long wait. Don’t get me wrong, it’s cool that it handles all the grunt work of dependencies and compiling, but I do like the instant gratification of an immediately installed binary vs. a compiled solution.

Even when I have to use Windows, I always go grab a copy of cygwin before I do much of anything.

Posted 30 November 2009, Hide, Reply

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