Multilib Middle-Ground

[Mark Heslep]

James Antill wrote:
>
>>  There's simply no easy way to distribute 
>> closed-source softare for Linux, as we all know.
>>     
>
>  That's funny, because adobe seem to be doing a pretty good job of
> it ... at least it's a better solution than anything else I've seen for
> any other OS.
>  But even if it was "hard", it'd still be _much easier_ for the vendors
> to fix their packaging than for us (Fedora) to guess at what all of
> their users want/need and to add hacks to try and please everyone.
>
>   

Plenty of other proprietary vendors have trouble:
http://www.codeweavers.com/account/downloads/

*CrossOver Linux Professional 6.2.0 RPM (for Red Hat, Mandriva, or 
SuSE)* 
<http://www.codeweavers.com/account/downloads/crossover-pro-6.2.0-1.i386.rpm> 
	21.51 MB 
<http://www.codeweavers.com/account/downloads/?_dl=md5sum;file=178>
The RPM version of CrossOver Office is used on Distributions such as 
RedHat, SuSE, and Mandriva, that use the RPM package management system.
*CrossOver Linux Professional 6.2.0 for Debian GNU/Linux* 
<http://www.codeweavers.com/account/downloads/crossover-pro_6.2.0-1_i386.deb> 
	21.46 MB 
<http://www.codeweavers.com/account/downloads/?_dl=md5sum;file=179>
This version will operate only on Debian distributions of Linux such as 
Ubuntu.
*CrossOver Linux Professional 6.2.0 for 64bit Debian/GNU Linux* 
<http://www.codeweavers.com/account/downloads/ia32-crossover-pro_6.2.0-1_amd64.deb> 
	21.46 MB 
<http://www.codeweavers.com/account/downloads/?_dl=md5sum;file=187>
This version will operate only on Debian distributions of Linux such as 
Ubuntu.
*CrossOver Linux Professional 6.2.0 for Xandros Linux* 
<http://www.codeweavers.com/account/downloads/crossover-pro-xandros_6.2.0-1_i386.deb> 
	21.46 MB 
<http://www.codeweavers.com/account/downloads/?_dl=md5sum;file=180>
This version will operate only on Xandros Linux only.



Mark