Gimme the repo and I'll get it to compile on Arch, latest testing packages as per 2025-10-20T22:12:00 on repo.30p87.de/archlinux
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What colors are your thigh highs?
Black-white, preferably pink-white. I overcompensate a lot for boymoding.
It's too funny to me that Arch of all distributions attracts the thigh /Unix socks crowd (for lack of better word). Nothing about Arch stands out for me in that regard, there's no social statement or anything, and when I was more active in the community, it wasn't known for that.
I was deep enough into Arch to run my own private repository using aurutils, but no thighs :(
I have them but I use Debian mostly.
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mine are pink white too :D
Both of these two cases are why Flatpaks are so attractive.
Flatpaks are better than Snaps, but properly maintained dependency trees and SBOMs are best, by a wide margin.
PopOS fucked me up with flatpaks
Gateway drug
They are extremely effective at preventing PackageKit updates on my steam deck
I'm going to be honest to you, I prefer appimages.
I respect your wrong opinion
I rarely encounter them. But they usually work when I do. But, ugh, they're just kinda gross. Like, is this a .exe? No thank you. Don't give me windows trauma.
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plus that extra defense-in-depth layer of a sandbox
Flatpaks are okay for stuff that doesn't need deep access but they don't work for many things.
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You didnt waste those hours, you learned something.
Nothing that useful, apart from learning again that reading error messages properly can save you much pain.
Thatβs a useful lesson to have stick
Last week was the first time I think I've ever got a random Internet tarball to configure, make and make install. Program even did what it was supposed to too. I was amazed.
If itβs in the AUR you can use a arch distrobox container
The last picture in the meme always bothered me, because the sequence doesn't make any sense physically. (Popping the rake from mid air and doing the wrong flip and such)
So, I went on to find the sequence that I believe it was drawn from.
you think the sequence doesn't make physical sense, but skateboarding on a rake is fine?
It's like flying on a broom. Perfectly logical.
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I honestly can't remember the last time I've come across a package that I needed that so obscure that it wasn't found somewhere as at the very least an appimage, if not a flatpak. I haven't had to build from source in I don't even know how many years now.
What? Its something I do quite regularly.
Try making music on Linux. You'll be compiling obscure shit and tweaking configs all the time.
True. But I was coming at if from the perspective of an every day user coming from Windows. email, word processing, internet, etc... Even gaming and photo editing.
The more professional the needed software gets, of course the more obscure it gets.
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God bless flatpak for these cases
*Laughs in Nix
*accidentally uninstalls python base package trying to fix dependency conflicts in apt
As a non IT person I find Linux way better for installing software. The sort of apps non IT people use. The Software store has most of what I need. There rest I install the Windows way. From a website. Apps with a Linux version almost always detect and offer a Linux button to click to install. I wouldn't know what to do if that didn't work. Ditch that application I guess. My distros are pretty standard. Not hacked about. My apps are not too weird. I've been doing it this way for 14+ years. Never needed the CLI either.
LMAO, back in my Slackware days (3.4, 3.6, 4.0, 7.0), If I had to build from source, which was most things, step1: ./configure step2: install the missing package step3: goto step1 until no missing packages identified step4: make step5: make install
Sometimes my packages were too old, So I would just go to step1 for each package that also needed to be newer. I'm not even a Linux Expert, and I definitely wasn't a Linux Expert then. All the building from source helps me jump into software projects and become productive real quick though.
When the dependencies need dependencies and then those dependencies need dependencies, the rabbit hole is endless!
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Bruh just use nix, flatpak or appimage πΏ (we don't talk about snaps)
"Just use Flatpak."
"But that will use 2GB when a system package will use 34MB."
"Duh, it's not 2GB total. Flatpaks share dependencies."
"I don't have any other Flatpaks on my system."
"..."
"..."
"OK, so it'll be 2GB. Your next one will be smaller, though."
"If I install one and if it shares any dependencies with the first one."
"Pff. You're just a hater."
"Yeah, I hate that something that should be small is using 2GB of space."
βJust use Flatpak.β
βBut that will use 2GB when a system package will use 34MB. Yeah, I hate that something that should be small is using 2GB of space.β
"The space consumption isn't my preference either, but I'd rather be using the app than fighting dependencies. I wish you luck with your dependency chain then."
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There should be some kind of automated certification for git repos, where if the described install process does not complete on a default install of the most popular OS, the software gets a big red "does not work" label.
Me on gentoo with my fucked up GCC and python versions. I must have spent so many hours compiling trying to get this shit to the right versions on a Chromebook with very little disk space.
Its cooked, I know its cooked but i dont want to go through the effort of reinstalling.
make: error: libX11.so permission denied or not found make: failed, something something finishing remaining jobs.
dear god what does it mean
I get that your issue was probably more nuanced than that, but what's so confusing about inatalling missing build dependencies? If projects have a build guide sometimes they'll straight up give you an install command for your distribution. If not, it's up to you to find the package names corresponding to what you need to install since they can differ from distro to distro.
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