[maemo-users] App-Manager failure

[From: Ryan Abel]

On Nov 22, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Mark Haury wrote:

> Ryan Abel wrote:
>
>>> Yes, upgrade to Diablo, it has a much more useful Application  
>>> Manager. :)
>
> ...and a bunch of other stuff is broken that previously worked...

"bunch of stuff" isn't a useful metric for your argument. There was  
some stuff, yes, but most of them have been fixed, and the advantages  
far outweigh any setbacks.

>>> If that's not an option, running apt-get update as root in xterm  
>>> will
>>> give you more verbose errors
>>
>
> ...which is fine for advanced users, but not an option for the  
> average consumer
> end-user. Just getting root access is not trivial.

Which is why Diablo's Application Manager does this error handling for  
you! Moot argument, please stop trolling.

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Ryan Abel
Maemo Community Council chair