I post this idea because almost every ideas related to the installer were not voted.
I suggest mering all applications into one because they're all for the same tasks. It's pointless to have many apps to do the same thing.
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I have made an abstract of this idea to say thing more clearly.
What is the Problem? we have five apps to do similar tasks when this could be integrated into ONE.
The overall point of this:
-Integrate Alien into a Graphic User Interface UUPM
-Merge Add/Romve Software into ONE Application with 2 levels advanced and simple.
-create an application that takes care of dependencies of a package that hasn't been compiled yet with just one click.
-And (MAYBE) an integration to Wine-Doors for windows Applications.
Consider this idea dont stop Voting.
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I will bring up what Tree MendUs User said:
It is not so easy to compile a program from source, and install it, or make it available as a deb for everybody else. But it is far more available (and probably easier) than it is for programs in proprietary Operating System.
Also possible installations are ;
- It is easy to add linux rpms using alien.
- Run windows programs on wine, and it's not too difficult to install those either.
- And there are other options for adding/removing programs to Ubuntu (which can be installed).
Some are available from Applications menu, others available from System menu, and some from nautilus (options).
Problem ;
There Is no "one stop shop" for programs installation management.
Solution ;
"Where" ever else (on the menu), and "How" ever else there are ways to install programs on the OS, it would be handy to have them all available from one location (on the menu).
This could be a section in control panel, or a subsection of add/remove programs.
It could possibly oversee the entire list of all program,s installed, and shows which method was used to install them (to where in the file system).
A user may not be so interested in managing the "ins and the outs" of how to install a program, and would probably prefer to use a system where all they need to know is that a program "can" be added, but the system will figure out which method of adding it should be used (e.g. like clicking on a deb file).
Of course, none of the current systems get displaced - they remain available.
But users that need things easy could just use the universal adder/remover.
The universal system could manage the default methods of installing the different kinds of files, and provide options download alternative installers.
The universal installer could manage the scripts that need to be taylored to the PC (say when compiling).
