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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 62 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

"./configure"

"error: libblahblah1.0.0-2 not found"

downloads tarball

"tar –xvzf libblahblah1.0.0-2.tar.gz"

"./configure"

"error: libblahblah1.0.0-2 depends on libgofuckyourself.2.0.0"

downloads tarball

"tar -xvzf libgofuckyourself.2.0.0.tar.gz"

"./configure"

"error: libblahblah1.0.0-2 not found"

🤯😡🤬

Can you imagine we did this shit over dialup too? I was there. In the dark times.

[–] Railison@aussie.zone 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 13 points 6 months ago

And on top of that, to even get linux installed, there was lilo..

[–] ulkesh@beehaw.org 10 points 6 months ago

I was there in darker times, with a modem that had no Linux driver, so no connection at all, learning from printouts from the library.

I may have PTSD from it.