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Neil Williams wrote:
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:45:02 +0000 Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Neil Williams wrote:On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:36:28 +0000 It is convenient to download a pre-built .deb but it is not only insecure, it is a positive hindrance to normal upgrade behaviour across the rest of the distribution.Although very handy for testing if you have a suitable machine around!or a chroot - but then creating chroots isn't something most users do routinely, especially getting chroot packages to then use Xorg.The source tarball setup file is a ruby file that tries to install grism to /usr/bin, so unless you know Ruby, I'd skip trying to run it from source.Naughty.On a vanilla Debian Lenny install it installs a menu option under "Office". It starts and stops as you'd expect. I added Share to Watch, I added share to portfolios, it calculated profit/loss. Best I could say is it shows promise. It crashed trying to chart a year of IBM stock.:-(Because it is always retrieving stuff from Yahoo it is surprisingly slow (it should pre-empt my needs more probably and get rid of the round trip delays). It doesn't support alerts or other features common to Yahoo! Finance, Google finance. So probably not the tool John was looking for. Although any Ruby programmers might think "I can fix it".Doesn't sound like it's ready for Debian at the moment either. It would need a Ruby developer already working with the Debian Ruby team to get it into some sort of decent shape. Just because software is free doesn't mean it's any good - there can be other reasons why package foo isn't in Debian or Ubuntu apart from a lack of time by interested maintainers, the package may just be crud.
So it is back to looking for a suitable and secure programme. Neil's comments are quite worrying so I shall follow his advice. Have a nice weekend! John W -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html