Thursday June 17, 2004

blastwave rocks!

While having my daily fix of Sun blog (kind of becoming yet another addiction), I came across hoffie's happy endorsement of downloading gaim from blastwave and interestingly traced to maintainer torrey. Hey, that's Torrey! Can't miss Torrey if you read email support aliases. >-)

Since I had procrastinated too long to compile gaim 0.77 myself (got the source but not the time) and to think that 0.78 is already out, I figured, hey, why not, let's be lazy. I remember doing pkg-get some time ago when it was still BOLTpget.pkg, but can't recall what for; which means it probably failed for some reason.

Anyway, this time, it was painless and by far the best user experience I've had installing free stuff! Installing anything for that matter!

   pkg-get -i gaim

A couple of y's later for 'yes' to run script with su priv, Gaim 0.78 was up and running! That's all there is! Considering that I had an empty /opt/csw, so pkg-get were downloading obscene amount of packages that at some point I was actually worried. (Should I?)

With such easy success, it didn't take long for me to continue with:

   pkg-get -i gqview

And again, no problem whatsoever. This time was a lot faster considering most of the big dependent packages are already done.

blastwave ROCKS! Here's yet another satisfied customer. :-)

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