I thought I’ll make this thread for all of you out there who have questions but are afraid to ask them. This is your chance!

I’ll try my best to answer any questions here, but I hope others in the community will contribute too!

  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldBanned
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    1 year ago

    How do people not using Debian/Ubuntu follow along with tutorials when their package manager doesn’t have a package that’s in Apt?

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      1 year ago

      Back in my slackware days I’d just convert other distros packages to the tgz format or compile the package and its requirements.

      If the dependencies were really complex I’d draw a picture to help me understand them better.

    • 🐍🩶🐢@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I usually look at their GitHub or what have you to see if there are packages or instructions there. I have been able to solve most issues this way. Otherwise I see how much of a bitch it will be to compile from source. Depending what it is, I also check to see if there is a docker image instead.