a warning to would-be nvusers

[Joel Hammer]

apt-get install nvu
seems to work.
The lindows warehouse was fine, too.
Just gotta love debian.
Joel


On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 06:32:13PM -0500, dep wrote:
> greets.
> 
> nvu, the little "front page" clone recently released as 0.10, comes as a 
> tarball -- that does not create its own directory when opened. so if 
> you want to inspect the thing -- or, for that matter, to install it 
> someplace -- you need to create a directory, dump the thing in there, 
> and then open up the tarball. otherwise, it will splatter itself all 
> the hell over the current directory.
> 
> they haven't gotten the tarball right, which gives me little hope for 
> the application itself.
> 
> too bad -- it's not really a bad idea, if it puts out decent code.
> -- 
> dep
>