Aaron Spike wrote:
Benjamin Huot wrote:
I installed .44pre4 by Autopackage on Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake under KDE with the latest security and stability including kernel updates. When I chose manage 3rd party applications and remove Inkscape like I did for .44pre3, my computer locked up on me and I had to do a hard reboot. After rebooting, I checked then and it no longer appeared in the list under 3rd party applications. Then I changed the .package file to make it executable and then double clicked on it. My screen locked up temporarily as it spent several minutes initializing. Then my dock disappeared. I saw it said it was installing various components and then it said it was done. My dock was still gone! Luckily I was able to log out by right clicking on the desktop. I logged back in, launched Inkscape and it seems to work fine. That is the last time I use Autopackage!!!
Certainly your choice and I can respect that. But it would be very helpful to everyone, if you would report your troubles to the autopackage developers and work with them to find a solution.
It amazes me that tons of people will report bug after bug to Inkscape, but very often people chuck autopackage after the first glitch and decide never to use it again. And worse they often speak out loudly against it. IMHO, if you have a problem and fail to report it you are to blame for the problems of the next person.
Let's work together to build up the free software community as a whole.
Aaron Spike
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I didn't mean to put down autopackage. I just didn't want others to encounter the same problems.
It is still early in development at this point, as far as I can tell. I am used to the stability of OS X, where nothing has crashed my system for over 2 years. I don't think a program should crash X-Windows and I do not want to risk losing data do to instability. Yes, I make frequent and multiple offsite backups of different kinds, but I don't want to lose any of my copies. If I could install from the command line, I would, as I think the gui is what has the problems, but I didn't see a way to install via the command line (meaning without a gui).
I will certainly report it to autopackage. I thought the problem was that the Inkscape servers were overtaken by the hordes of eager testers :-)