Why use Listaller?

The problems

Everyone who has experience in Linux and the software installation on this platform by using the package manager may laugh about Listaller. But Listaller's target usergroup are NOT the experienced users and the Linux power users. Listaller should make software installations/un-installations easier for every user, especially for newbies, and also the creation of software packages for Linux easier for developers, developer teams and companies. The users have to choose between a large amount of files on an server and have to find out the right package for their Linux distribution. This is also a problem for package-management “power-users” if they need an application which is not in the repositories. When Windows users just have to choose between an 64bit and an 32bit build, Linux users have big software repositories and a lot of packages that depend on each other. And all prerequisites need to be installed manually just for one application. Or they have to read long instructions how to compile a source package. We have already really good software to install 3rd party applications on Linux, such as Autopackage.org or LOKI/Mojo, which try to solve this problem. But those projects aren't accepted very well because they cause problems in the package management system, need static-linked applications and are very difficult to uninstall. Also, we don't need hundreds of different package managements that conflict with each other.

The solution

FIXME

listaller-reasons.txt · Last modified: 2012/04/12 16:32 (external edit)
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