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> are hilariously out of date Well that's exactly the problem I run into with most packages (even outside of programming dependencies like Python libraries), b
by commandlinefan 7y ago
> are hilariously out of date
Well that's exactly the problem I run into with most packages (even outside of programming dependencies like Python libraries), but if ./configure, make, make install fails for any reason, the first google hit on the error message is "why are you trying to install this from source? Use the repos, that's what they're for"...
- Godel_unicode 7y agoThat doesn't match my experience at all; people usually realize that there are tons of reasons not to use the repo version. Perhaps you want a newer Python than the crusty old one that comes with 18.04. perhaps you want to test something that doesn't exist in the repos (the horror!). Docker and Elastic both recommend using their repos or building from source rather than using the geriatric versions in the Ubuntu repos.