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Snap out of it (lemmy.zip)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

in the end we end up using containers afaict