Subj : Re: Linux Mint 20.1 issue
To   : Alexey Vissarionov
From : Anna Christina Nass
Date : Mon Feb 08 2021 15:37:00

Am 07.02.21 schrieb Alexey Vissarionov@2:5020/545 in LINUX:

Hallo Alexey,

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.

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

?!?!?!?
The original poster wants to install software via "make" and I guess this  
means to compile the program which indeed needs development programs.

What you do on your systems was not the question - or do you have a better  
solution with your "properly designed system"?

ACN>> Also, the meta-package "build-essential" is helpful when compiling
ACN>> packages.
AV> I'd never use the system where such package does really exist...

Then stay away from everything that is derived from Debian GNU/Linux.

Anna

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