Dependencies:
Old ass library version from 2004
apt/dnf/pacman: package not found
library package was last available 15 years ago before it was dropped to move to the next legacy version
App package was available right up until last year until it was dropped for development inactivity
Absolutely no one has a compiled version of old ass library
Attempting to compile old ass library results in 30 other old ass package dependencies
How in the actual world was the maintainer compiling this up to last year
It worked on their machine
Why docker was created be like
Does docker solve this problem?
Why even use releases? Everyone can build everything for themselves. ‘Normal Users’ are just lazy, everyone wants to know how every piece of software is built for their system, it’s not like they have other stuff to do.
Ah the Linux help desk where you get helpful directions like “You have a problem with your dual monitor setup in your naively installed Ubuntu setup? Have you considered installing a rust micro kernel from an abandoned GitHub repo? After cherry picking some patches from a mailinglist? Also boon plep Ubuntu looser.”
Hey, get your Gentoo propaganda out of here.
I don’t care for this mentality. I understand constant questions must get old for developers/contributors but the mentality that people should compile from the source is not conducive to growing FOSS. It is, however, potentially conducive to laziness from the devs. “Eh, why should I spend time releasing compiled builds? Let the plebs compile themselves.”
Devs don’t usually package for specific distros unless it’s a generic format like Appimage that can just be downloaded. Distro maintainers need to get it into the format their package manager uses and update the list to make it available.
yay <package name>
There is a 99% chance it’s in there, and there is an 80% chance it uses the latest version/git HEAD
Yay?
yay, a utility to access the AUR, where users share build scripts instead of binaries. It’s just one step abovecurl | sudo shin terms of security.
Guys I downloaded the github link, and it won’t launch as an app, what do? :(
/j
You could add ‘.exe’ at the end. It will definitely not work, but you can still do it for a laugh anyways ;)
Wine: wtf is this shit?
Wine could probably run it
