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No system package -> installing from user repos -> appimage -> flatpak -> creating your own package -> using a VM with a distro that has the package -> not installing package
If after that you still don't have it, ~~it wasn't meant to be~~ it's probably just not very good software.
Personally go: Flatpak (I like easily controlling an apps premissions) -> flatpak version is broken... Try system package -> distrobox -> compiling -> appimage -> not installing a package
Distrobox/containerd is so nice since a lot of the niche tools I use require Debian or Ubuntu dependency versions, but I'd be lying if I said everything "just works"
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.
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.
All these different package manager systems.
I think we just need to consolidate and make a standard one
nix-shell is great too. sort of like a "demo" of something before actually committing to it or if you just want to use something one off without adding it to your config and rebuilding.
As a dev it's fantastic for testing also. can just try something on a bunch of browsers without actually installing the browser. love it.
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.
Things have gotten so, so much better over the last 5 or 6 years.
Flatpak, appimage, docker are just brilliant.
I recently discovered nix and am in that honeymoon phase of trying to hit every nail with that hammer.
What I love is when you need a core part of the kernel and the only way to install it is by recompiling the kernel and you can't use bottles or docker for some obscure reason (yes this has happened to me no I wasn't happy.)
Oh sweet Jesus! LOL! This is me, though not with Linux, but trying to use Macports to get some damn program running and failing miserably because I couldn't get the permissions set on the dependencies correctly.
Rake right to the face. FML.
Be me, build a Dockerfile to do all that shit in a nice CI package, still can't run it.
This is why you use Arch/Nix because the package is likely in their repos.
The software probably still won't work, but you can waste more time on it.
Glad im not the only one. Thats one thing that makes me go man, people will never leave windows for this, this is insanely complex to juat install a program.
I find it fun to learn tho
I was gonna get mad but then I continued reading.
LOL!
We've all been there..
On Nixos
No nixpkg Make flake
here's a challenge: diodon plugins in github
Don't install software outside of official repos or at least avoid doing it like the plague
Use tools like distrobox and toobx to install apps from other distros