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How do you guys get software that is not in your distribution's repositories?

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[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 48 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Why not just stick to what we've always been doing?

  1. wget something.tar.gz
  2. tar something.tar.gz
  3. man tar
  4. tar xzf something.tar.gz
  5. cd something
  6. ls -al
  7. ./config.sh
  8. chmod +x config.sh
  9. ./config.sh
  10. make config
  11. Try to figure out where to get some obscure dependency, with the right version number. Discover that the last depency was hosted on the dev's website that the dev self-hosted when it went belly up 5 years ago. Finally find the lib on some weird site with a TLD you could have sworn wasn't even in latin characters.
  12. make config
  13. make
  14. Go for coffee
  15. make install
  16. SU root
  17. make install
[-] PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

We should normalize programs that don't use such exotic and impossible libraries that you have to do anything besides type "make" and "make install" for it to work.

In theory it's a no brainer. In practice not so much.

[-] Omniraptor@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

in the end we end up using containers afaict

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