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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • Why isn’t there a way for Linux users to automatically install every missing dependency for a program?

    There is; actually there are several. Every^* distribution has a package manager, that’s what it does. But you have to make a package for the program, similar to what the tegaki folks have done for Mac and Windows.

    Another option is to statically link everything.

    One issue is the fragmentation; because there are so many Linux distributions, it’s hard to support packages for all of them. This is one thing that flatpack aims to solve.

    I would expect this to be an issue for old closed-source software, but not for old free software. Usually there’s someone to maintain packages for it.

    Some cursory searching shows no tegaki package on flathub or in nix (either of these can be used on any distro; the nix one is surprising to me; it hosts soooo many packages).

    But I do see it in Debian: https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default§ion=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=tegaki