Talk:Puzzle Pirates installation guide (Linux)
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Do we have a page that references technical issues, and solutions? Should there be more technical issues articles on the wiki?
- We don't yet. I did link to this from Puzzle Pirates. If you have other technical issues that merit an article, pick a good name and create them. We can create a technical issues category to index them. --Guppymomma 19:18, 9 March 2006 (PST)
- I'd love this, as I don't have nearly enough time to write up documentation for common technical issues, and if I can send people to the wiki, so much the better! --Lizthegrey 00:28, 10 March 2006 (PST)
- Okay, template created. I'll fix it up more later. For any other technical issues pages you create just pop {{technical issue}} on the first line. Edit: And you can see what's in the category at Category:Technical issues. --Guppymomma 09:53, 11 March 2006 (PST)
List of tech issues needing wikification
Just starting a to do list of sorts. --Guppymomma 14:45, 29 April 2006 (PDT)
Disputed
Hi, sorry if I used the wrong tag for this! But, this page has several problems. Firstly it's extremely out-of-date; for instance, the recommendation to download Java SDK 1.4 - both a security risk, and no longer compatible with the next client release. Most Linux distros can use Java SE 6 (the SDK/JDK is not needed and is a huge download; only the JRE is needed to run programs.) Also, nearly all Linux distros have a package management system, which obviates the need to download direct from Sun. I use Ubuntu; the only command needed there is sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre. But the method changes since other distributions use completely different package management. The beginning user should never be encouraged to download/install software directly when it is available through package management. At any rate, I don't have time tonight to update the article, but I will have time during this week to get it improved. I didn't realize there was an article here, I came because of a link from the forum, so since it has gained a bit of currency I thought it best to tag it as bad, rather than erasing a section or two and rambling on without collecting my thoughts. --Chupchup 08:17, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
- I gave this a bit of thought and couldn't really come up with any alternative tags to stick on the page, so leaving disputed up there is fine for now. I'm pretty sure there's a template for marking stuff as out-of-date somewhere. Thanks for letting us know that the information was erroneous! --Featherfin 14:14, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
- {{Update}} (Usage) is what you are looking for :-) --Sagacious (talk) 17:38, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
- Actually, no, the update template does not seem to be a strong enough wording to discourage people from using the instructions as-is. There are security problems with installing Java 1.4. The package management system could become confused by a manual Java installation. The update tag is low-key, and appears to address editors only, rather than the reader. I'm adding back the disputed tag on top of the update tag. Chupchup 05:53, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
- {{Update}} (Usage) is what you are looking for :-) --Sagacious (talk) 17:38, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
