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    [–] [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.

    [–] [email protected] 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.

    [–] [email protected] 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.

    [–] [email protected] 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.