This is fine. It's a great beginner project -- C++ is probably painful even statically compiled, and Go/Rust would be better. But you may as well make it a lit

This is fine. It's a great beginner project -- C++ is probably painful even statically compiled, and Go/Rust would be better. But you may as well make it a little smarter. Over a decade ago, this utility could be done ad-hoc in 100 lines of Perl (including spacing and comments), and that includes "try to see if yum on RHEL6 knows where to find the missing dep, build a list, and prompt to install": https://gist.github.com/evol262/3d67c4295bbe78135a4927bd1d822e04 https://gist.github.com/evol262/3d67c4295bbe78135a4927bd1d82... It would be a fun project for you to try to do this with dpkg/pacman/dnf (which is basically the same as yum for syntax, just that you're not gonna be a sysadmin hacking out Perl to solve a problem)