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    Oh, come on! (sh.itjust.works)
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    [–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 72 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

    “Just follow the build instructions on GitHub”

    1000 error messages ensue.

    [–] ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 26 points 4 weeks ago

    That’s your own darn fault. You were supposed to know the 0.0.1 version was GA instead of assuming 0.0.3-alpha was stable. You would have known if you read the 2000 line README. On the second dependency there is no README though, so just use the latest and hope it’s still compatible.

    [–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 weeks ago

    Last commit 8 years ago "Updated for Linux 4.5"

    [–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 weeks ago

    Then do some digging and find that the GitHub instructions omitted some particular dependency, make a mental note to contribute a PR to the documentation later once you've got it working, get it working, promptly forget contributing that documentation, move distro later, try to reinstall the same program, make the same mistake, same discovery, learn nothing, repeat ad nauseam.

    [–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

    I'm trying to learn Houdini. I thought, "Oh, I'll just download a template and see how it should look."

    Even already-made templates are apparently out-of-my-depth.