Same problem. I agree. What a fake-out. Testing my own apps was the very last step of my first test install. Everything wonderful then - at the very end - that moment of quiet silence - what now?
The average person could care less. But it is rather impolite to programmers!
Basically, I got lucky. I could just rebuild my few little apps (ERIC + QT4 based).
Ubuntu 10.04 has a lot of great features but one huge legacy problem : during installation it does not ask what applications you wish to install.
Best example : I did a clean 10.04 install on one notebook for testing. So, Ubuntu merrily installs a bunch of apps - and I wait. Then I have to go through and uninstall several of them - and I wait again. This is one of the classic problems and well-known problems with Windows pre-installs!
This seems like a nerd legacy way of thinking. It's great to have the free software but don't second-guess users.
One alternative is to install the basic operating system and then start a GUI based app installer program (not the Ubuntu Software Center) which has a bunch of check boxes and app descriptions. I could then just check the apps that I want. Obviously, some would be "recommended" but : none should be pre-checked.
Glad to hear you managed to get your environment back up and running, too.
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Same problem. I agree. What a fake-out. Testing my own apps was the very last step of my first test install. Everything wonderful then - at the very end - that moment of quiet silence - what now?
The average person could care less. But it is rather impolite to programmers!
Basically, I got lucky. I could just rebuild my few little apps (ERIC + QT4 based).
Ubuntu 10.04 has a lot of great features but one huge legacy problem : during installation it does not ask what applications you wish to install.
Best example : I did a clean 10.04 install on one notebook for testing. So, Ubuntu merrily installs a bunch of apps - and I wait. Then I have to go through and uninstall several of them - and I wait again. This is one of the classic problems and well-known problems with Windows pre-installs!
This seems like a nerd legacy way of thinking. It's great to have the free software but don't second-guess users.
One alternative is to install the basic operating system and then start a GUI based app installer program (not the Ubuntu Software Center) which has a bunch of check boxes and app descriptions. I could then just check the apps that I want. Obviously, some would be "recommended" but : none should be pre-checked.
Glad to hear you managed to get your environment back up and running, too.
Thanks for this blog post!