Please stop right there and think at the average Ubuntu user, or at a person that has used Windows as his primary OS and just recently has tried Linux hoping to learn/try/test some C++0x/C++11 codes.
Obviously the linked article was not written with a hard core Linux user in mind.
I understand that, from where you stand, this is trivially simple. Just don't assume everyone has your experience.
it was for... I don't recall exactly, something non-standard gcc did with templates, possibly? Anyways, they sent me the sources pre-patched, I just compiled it.
> gentoo
that I didn't administer, I only used it. I was a real newbie at the time. I just figured that since you specified ubuntu...
> I understand that, from where you stand, this is trivially simple. Just don't assume everyone has your experience.
I see your point, though. I might be looking back at it with the rose-tinted glasses of experience. Also, when I first skimmed through it I only read up until the point where it said that it was complicated and then I got interrupted by the real world for a while, building suspense.