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1 year ago80% of the time, compiling something from source is just a matter of downloading the code, opening a terminal and changing to the directory containing the source and running these commands:
./configure
make
make install
It’s the same 3 commands, 80% of the time.
Installing the prerequisites can be tricky, if the docs are lacking.
Very interesting, thanks!