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ID | Category | Severity | Reproducibility | Date Submitted | Last Update | ||
0002971 | [pkg_get] other | major | always | 2008-12-16 23:13 | 2012-06-24 07:22 | ||
Reporter | kapilt | View Status | public | ||||
Assigned To | phil | ||||||
Priority | normal | Resolution | not fixable | ||||
Status | closed | ||||||
Summary | 0002971: No installation instructions | ||||||
Description | tried to get past the fork literature, and get on with using opencsw. however there are no docs on how to actually install pkg-get. the user manual completely skips it. seems like a a great way to attrition your user base to zero. seriously, if you want people to use this stuff, you should document how to install it. | ||||||
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(0005473) phil (manager) 2008-12-19 17:11 |
There IS documentation on how to install. However, perhaps you followed a path that did not lead you to the docs. What "user manual" are you referring to, that does not tell you how to install it? when you say "manual", I think "Man page". however, if you are reading the manpage, then isnt it already installed? :-) |
(0005584) philadmin (viewer) 2009-02-27 18:09 |
user unresponsive as to specific needs. closing after 3 months. |
(0005592) kapilt (reporter) 2009-02-28 19:27 |
okay, say i come to the opencsw.org site, and i want to use opencsw. nothing obvious on the home page. so i click on the next obvious link. the user guide link. i get a documentation page without any information on how to actual install opencsw, just how to use it. |
(0005611) user2169 2009-03-09 09:08 |
I think kapilt means that opencsw.org should have a page similar to http://www.blastwave.org/howto.html [^] - that is, a page which explains how to install pkg-get. In other words, instructions how to get started with opencsw.org with no previous knowledge of it. I'd suggest putting on the main page, http://www.opencsw.org/, [^] something along the lines of: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- pkgadd -d http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/solaris/opencsw/pkg_get.pkg [^] all echo >> /etc/opt/csw/pkg-get.conf \ "url=ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/opencsw/current/" [^] pkg-get -U pkg-get -i vim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
(0005613) phil (manager) 2009-03-09 17:21 |
I updated things a bit. Please let me know if this helps enough. Hopefully, the front page is a bit more blatant about "go read this page" now. |
(0005617) user2169 2009-03-10 09:12 |
The new sentence on the front page, "Please see the pkg-get page for details on how to get started with it" definitely helps. If there was an "Installation" header in front of it, it would be even better! |
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