Les Mikesell wrote:
On 9/17/2010 3:30 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
All I'm saying is that it often turns out to be a whole lot more work than the initial 'configure, make, make install', so you either have to train the users to do their own copies in their own space so it will
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If you have different users needing these things on the same machine you must at least have run into situations where someone needs one version of a CPAN module or a new php/python/mysql version when at the same time someone else is running something that won't work with it.
You might have run into the CPAN issue if you installed something like RT in the Centos 4 era.
Actually, my manager just laid something on me this morning: the new release of Adobe's 64-bit flash for Linux. I suppose I need to get it from Adobe, then find who's running 64 bit and not 32 bit....
mark