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minus-squareRailison@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoIn my own case I’d put it down to Flatpak etc. finally resolving the software installation problem. Installing most Linux OSes has been easy enough for decades, but a program not in your distro’s repos could be a nightmare to get working.
minus-squareTimeSquirrel@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months ago“./configure” “error: libblahblah1.0.0-2 not found” downloads tarball “tar –xvzf libblahblah1.0.0-2.tar.gz” “./configure” “error: libblahblah1.0.0-2 depends on libgofuckyourself.2.0.0” downloads tarball “tar -xvzf libgofuckyourself.2.0.0.tar.gz” “./configure” “error: libblahblah1.0.0-2 not found” 🤯😡🤬 Can you imagine we did this shit over dialup too? I was there. In the dark times.
minus-squareulkesh@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoI was there in darker times, with a modem that had no Linux driver, so no connection at all, learning from printouts from the library. I may have PTSD from it.
minus-squareneidu2@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoAnd on top of that, to even get linux installed, there was lilo…
In my own case I’d put it down to Flatpak etc. finally resolving the software installation problem.
Installing most Linux OSes has been easy enough for decades, but a program not in your distro’s repos could be a nightmare to get working.
“./configure”
“error: libblahblah1.0.0-2 not found”
downloads tarball
“tar –xvzf libblahblah1.0.0-2.tar.gz”
“./configure”
“error: libblahblah1.0.0-2 depends on libgofuckyourself.2.0.0”
downloads tarball
“tar -xvzf libgofuckyourself.2.0.0.tar.gz”
“./configure”
“error: libblahblah1.0.0-2 not found”
🤯😡🤬
Can you imagine we did this shit over dialup too? I was there. In the dark times.
I was there in darker times, with a modem that had no Linux driver, so no connection at all, learning from printouts from the library.
I may have PTSD from it.
Memories 🥲
And on top of that, to even get linux installed, there was lilo…