Musings of a Babylon Lurker » linux trouble http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog Science, technology and science fiction/Fantasy Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:18:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The “Blessings” of a Linux distribution. http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog/2008/11/27/the-blessings-of-a-linux-distribution/ http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog/2008/11/27/the-blessings-of-a-linux-distribution/#comments Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:00:51 +0000 lurker http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog/?p=193 Or rather – “why does a package not work as it is supposed to be ?”

Today I tried to install a text mode satellite tracking program under Ubuntu. It installs fine and starts up, asking for some initial data (“this is the first time….”). I enter the data, the program exits. Sounds ok. The screen (window) looks strange, I restart the program : “this is the first time …”

I do not know what is wrong, something is incompatible. Probably the modifications used by the distribution.

When I get time I will look into it, for now that will have to wait. But it is annoying.

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