it’s less work building from a VCS than from a tarball
tarball:
- find the website
- find download link
- download the tarball
- navigate to the tarball (using a GUI file browser)
- extract the tarball (using a GUI extractor)
- navigate to the extracted directory (using the shell)
- and finally…
$ ./configure && make && sudo make install
VCS:
- find the website
- find clone link
- clone the repository
- navigate to the cloned directory (using the shell)
- and finally…
$ ./configure && make && sudo make install
So, that’s 2 extra steps for going the tarball way.
[sidenote] Other issues (specialised build systems, risks, …) are beyond the scope of this blog post.
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