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

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[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Install from source if there isn't a repo for the software.

[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Hardcore

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Way back in the before times there was only the source.

[-] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 2 months ago

If it's C or C++, I get the source from the project's GitHub / GitLab / Source Hosting thing and compile it for myself.
For programming languages that I don't read, I usually use the AUR.

Also,

  • GoG for games
  • Xilinx website, for that one time, I got the ISE
  • AppImage sometimes
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[-] ma1w4re@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Build from source

[-] Unyieldingly@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

LFS Ftw!

[-] LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org 2 points 2 months ago

I have a few source built packages that I use every day.

Loading up my system with several development libraries to compile a program is preferable to taking a giant dump on my system in the form of soypacks.

[-] rain_worl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

for transcripts, i built tesseract from source

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