Subj : Linux Mint 20.1 issue
To   : Anna Christina Nass
From : Alexey Vissarionov
Date : Sun Feb 07 2021 18:30:00

Good ${greeting_time}, Anna!

07 Feb 2021 10:17:00, you wrote to Mark Seifert:

 MS>> 1) Any one possibly tell me why everytime I try to "make" I get
 MS>> errors, snap, flatpack, appimage, .deb and rpm work fine but if I
 MS>> have to try to "make" it fails.  Any suggestions..?
 ACN> When make fails, you should be able to see an error message that
 ACN> could tell you "why" it failed. If some .h files are missing, you
 ACN> could search for the corresponding -dev package and install it.

In a properly designed systems you'd never need to install the development packages: they should be installed only inside of a clean build environment.

 ACN> Also, the meta-package "build-essential" is helpful when compiling
 ACN> packages.

I'd never use the system where such package does really exist...

 MS>> 2) Does/Did anyone else upgrade to Linux Mint only to have it tell
 MS>> you that your network cable is unplugged when the live cd found it
 MS>> as connected, but the actual install fails.
 ACN> Maybe a package containing firmware files for the network hardware
 ACN> is missing in the installation?

Or the kernel was built improperly.


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