“I can’t install an app because a dependency depends on another dependency that I already have installed but in ever so slightly the wrong way, but I have another app installed which depends on this dependency being installed the way it is now, so I’ll have to compile the app from source instead and tweak the config file to work with my version of this dependency, but I also can’t compile the app because of the dev environment dependencies.”
I swear to god I installed Ubuntu the other week, it failed the apt upgrade and after a reboot it just loaded into Phoenix terminal… No idea what happened I just sighed and reinstalled a fresh copy.
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“I can’t install an app because a dependency depends on another dependency that I already have installed but in ever so slightly the wrong way, but I have another app installed which depends on this dependency being installed the way it is now, so I’ll have to compile the app from source instead and tweak the config file to work with my version of this dependency, but I also can’t compile the app because of the dev environment dependencies.”
Can I introduce you to our lord and savior Flatpak?
In which distro does that work?
All
This is their official site, you can unofficially run it on almost any distro since they all are Linux based after all.
NixOS be like: “lol”
How do people still get stuck in dependency hell?
“Oh good, I found a program that does exactly what I need, now I just need to add this weird-ass, mysterious repository…”
I’ve never had a problem with AUR packages (except for someone once forgetting to update the checksums but that was easy to fix)
Force force force
system refuses to boot
sudo boot --forceSudo is such a blessing to this world
I swear to god I installed Ubuntu the other week, it failed the apt upgrade and after a reboot it just loaded into Phoenix terminal… No idea what happened I just sighed and reinstalled a fresh copy.
Yup. It’s moments like these that I’m thankful I set up a separate home partition
That would only stop someone that can’t go beyond “clickety click” though.
Appimage/Flatpak ring any bell?
if you were still in the 90s sure…