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    [–] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 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.

    [–] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Usually developers list dependencies in README anyway

    [–] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    True. It's the dependencies of dependencies where the tricky part starts.

    [–] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Dependencies almost always are present in distro repos. What's tricky?

    [–] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 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.

    [–] uis@lemmy.world 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.

    [–] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 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.