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    submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
     

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

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    [–] MehBlah 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Install from source if there isn't a repo for the software.

    [–] InternetCitizen2 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
    [–] MehBlah 2 points 2 months ago

    Way back in the before times there was only the source.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)
    [–] Unyieldingly 2 points 2 months ago
    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

    I have a few source built packages that I use every day.

    Loading up my system with several development libraries to compile a program is preferable to taking a giant dump on my system in the form of soypacks.

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

    If it's C or C++, I get the source from the project's GitHub / GitLab / Source Hosting thing and compile it for myself.
    For programming languages that I don't read, I usually use the AUR.

    Also,

    • GoG for games
    • Xilinx website, for that one time, I got the ISE
    • AppImage sometimes
    [–] InverseParallax 3 points 2 months ago

    God that's painfully me.

    Except I moved to lxc and zfs with homebrew scripts for most now, pass containers around the network like candy, including an arch lutris one.

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