this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2023
415 points (94.1% liked)

linuxmemes

22145 readers
1391 users here now

Hint: :q!

Sister communities:

Community rules (click to expand)

1. Follow the site-wide rules

2. Be civil
  • Understand the difference between a joke and an insult.
  • Do not harrass or attack users for any reason. This includes using blanket terms, like "every user of thing".
  • Don't get baited into back-and-forth insults. We are not animals.
  • Leave remarks of "peasantry" to the PCMR community. If you dislike an OS/service/application, attack the thing you dislike, not the individuals who use it. Some people may not have a choice.
  • Bigotry will not be tolerated.
  • These rules are somewhat loosened when the subject is a public figure. Still, do not attack their person or incite harrassment.
    • 3. Post Linux-related content
  • Including Unix and BSD.
  • Non-Linux content is acceptable as long as it makes a reference to Linux. For example, the poorly made mockery of sudo in Windows.
  • No porn. Even if you watch it on a Linux machine.
    • 4. No recent reposts
  • Everybody uses Arch btw, can't quit Vim, <loves/tolerates/hates> systemd, and wants to interject for a moment. You can stop now.
    • 5. πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Language/язык/Sprache
  • This is primarily an English-speaking community. πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
  • Comments written in other languages are allowed.
  • The substance of a post should be comprehensible for people who only speak English.
  • Titles and post bodies written in other languages will be allowed, but only as long as the above rule is observed.
    • Β 

    Please report posts and comments that break these rules!

    Important: never execute code or follow advice that you don't understand or can't verify, especially here. The word of the day is credibility. This is a meme community -- even the most helpful comments might just be shitposts that can damage your system. Be aware, be smart, don't remove France.

    founded 2 years ago
    MODERATORS
    poopsmith
    zephyr
    rtxn
    415
    And Gentoo as well, but shush (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
    submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
    113 comments fedilink hide all child comments
     

    you are viewing a single comment's thread
    view the rest of the comments
    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Usually the only tricky part of compiling from source is tracking down dependencies. The package manager does that for you normally but you're not using the package manager when compiling from scratch. The actual building (even compiling a kernel) isn't all that complicated.

    [–] uis 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Usually developers list dependencies in README anyway

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    True. It's the dependencies of dependencies where the tricky part starts.

    [–] uis 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Dependencies almost always are present in distro repos. What's tricky?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    If you need the python header files, depending on your distro, you may need to install python3-dev, python3-devel, python3, or some other variation on the name. For a novice, this might not always be obvious and they might not know things like apt-file are helpful for figuring it out.

    [–] uis 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Huh. Shouldn't apt install header dependencies too? I'm using system where every package comes with headers, so I don't install headers separately.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Debian and RedHat based distros typically do not bundle them together. The have separate -dev and -devel packages for headers.