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Some times it is necessary to take a breath.

The concept 2.0 is expanding too fast and some times it is mandatory to stop from your tasks to have an overall perception of how technologies are evolving. Perhaps the forest sometimes doesn’t allow you to see the trees. Let’s have a look on how to face an approach to the integration of these aplications on the desktop.
Borrowing some ideas from Chema proposal:

• Get a definition: What is online desktop for us?
• Which is the relationship with Online Desktop?
• Crazy ideas: What do you think that could your desktop do to improve your Internet experience?
• Study the state of art of the project. What is mugshot?

Starting from the last point, we have started testing Mugshot Stacker in an Ubuntu 7.04.

# alien mugshot-1.1.45-1.fc8.i386.rpm

Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package mugshot: postinst postrm preinst prerm
Warning: Use the –scripts parameter to include the scripts.
mugshot_1.1.45-2_i386.deb generated

# dpkg -i mugshot_1.1.45-2_i386.deb

# mugshot
mugshot: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So it is necessary to install libcurl4, and i will have to upgrade my distribution. Keep going…

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Finally, it wasn’t neccesary. Reviewing the ubuntu backports and debian repositories mentioned in the mugshot wiki , I reached this repository where I could download and install the Debian package to start playing whith the Mugshot stacker widget.

The ethimological origin:

“Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?” Cicero.