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    i hate that it's very often like this (sh.itjust.works)
    submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    just run it through alien and hope

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    already did once, it led me to an uninstallable package

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

    Open it up in midnight commander, and it will unpack it into a virtual directory structure, complete with install/uninstall scripts.

    Look at the install script to see what it's thinking, pull out the file structure, copy into your filesystem.

    Oh, and hope. Because often you need to get matching glibc and other dynamic libraries that the program was compiled against. Which isn't the end of the world as the dynamic linker will look in the local directory where the program is first for libraries, but it becomes a hassle pretty quickly.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    hence why I said hope

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Llllllllllllllllllllllllllllollolllllllllllllllloooooooooooooiollllomkuuu'kj|mlll

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

    No need to bring Icelandic volcanoes into this