> On Feb 26, 2020, at 7:48 AM, Toralf Lund <toralf.lund at pgs.com> wrote: > > On 24/02/2020 15:46, Pete Biggs wrote: >>> In many case, but in the situations I'm talking about here is really a >>> lot more cumbersome to use. To use the command line to install a a >>> package from a website, I have to >>> >>> 1. Right-click >>> 2. Select Save Link As >>> 3. Enter filename/directory >>> 4. Open a terminal >>> 5. Remember where I put the bloody file >>> 6. Run yum to actually install it. >> yum (and rpm) can install from the web >> >> 1. Right-click >> 2. Copy link location >> 3. yum install <paste link location> > > Yeah, I knew that, really. Still pretty annoying, though. > Indeed, why don’t we have Linux automatically get and install the package (from whatever source), and never ask admin password. In other words, behave as nicely as MS Windows does. And security wise is the same garbage as MS Windows is. Incidentally, Microsoft is the only system vendor I know who explicitly tells you that it is not safe to run their operating system without third party software: antivirus. And even that antivirus approach is logically flawed thinking. Antivirus is trying to enumerate bad. You can not enumerate bad, you can enumerate good and prohibit everything else. The last is what sane sysadmins do. Just my 2 cents. Valeri >>> Compare that to >>> >>> 1. Click on the link >>> 2. Hey, there's no step 2. >>> >>> The 2nd variant is something that's was working for about 15 years, but >>> I guess that was before someone decided to make the system "user >>> friendly"... >>> >> Without getting emotional about it you need to think what happens when >> you click on a link in a web browser, i.e. how does the browser know to >> install this link you've just clicked on and what does it have to do in >> order to install it. Personally, I think having RPMs installable with a >> single click is a bad idea - they are as dangerous as .exe on Windows >> systems. > > Well, "yum install" with an URL isn't really any safer, is it? > > I don't think packages should be installed without any extra interaction, of course. With the way it's worked for several years, you have to enter a password and confirm that you want to start installation, and there are possibly warnings/extra confirmation steps related to signatures, too... > >> Having said that, on my Fedora system clicking on an RPM >> downloads it (with a warnning), then double clicking on the downloaded >> RPM in the browser launches "Gnome Software" to install it: no >> terminals involved and you never have to take your hand off the mouse. >> >> Things may be different if you aren't using Gnome or it may be >> different for another browser. > > I have concluded that it's meant to work that way in CentOS/Red Hat Enterprise 7, too. It's just that "Gnome Software" is seriously broken. Or more likely, the version included just wasn't ready for release, then someone released it anyway... > > It's hard not to get emotional about that when you know there was a perfectly usable alternative in past versions, which basically means someone went out of their way to break a system that just worked. > > - Toralf > >> >> P. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lists.centos.org_mailman_listinfo_centos&d=DwICAg&c=KV_I7O14pmwRcmAVyJ1eg4Jwb8Y2JAxuL5YgMGHpjcQ&r=Q0oqxzgUp3xCCIiJDwS-RbNDndQ-KZDhj8wwveNoqU4&m=eQAXNOd4oRL0Q1DPMezlKcdFNxSszG5oyM2dFFDJagA&s=EqEtj1TDcASGmA0gpz544HIs7E2hD8JhlG0HCtcbwSg&e= > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++