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Re:Automate download, install, config of IE-only VM's with V... by irahul on Friday September 02, 2011 @05:31PM (#2955691)
> Bad trend in the open-source community. Please don't ask your users to install stuff this way. Not that you can't be trusted, it leads to people dropping their guard.

And what will be the right way to do it? The way people don't drop their guard? `./configure && make && sudo make install`? Or `sudo apt-get install`? How are any of these or many other options seemingly better than this?

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Re:Automate download, install, config of IE-only VM's with V... by lloeki on Saturday September 03, 2011 @08:27AM (#2957140)
You probably mean 'add-apt-repository foorepo && apt-get update && apt-get install foopkg' or 'dpkg -i foopkg' (as root) because as is, 'apt-get install' is innocuous given one uses the default trusted, signed and whatnot repos.
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