![]() ![]() If you keep compiling from source as a way to expand knowledge, but also to add new functionality from latest snapshots, then this stuff becomes second nature after a while. In short this was my first ever kernel rebuild, and i managed it after about 30 tries.). ![]() After that try something harder, say a custom kernel (some years back when i was using Fedora 8 i needed a certain driver for some hardware i bought, but i was essentially told by Fedora Devs that it wasnt their problem (which is part of the reason i went to other distros), and i had to build a new kernel from scratch, as the latest kernel at the time had this new driver in it. Its a fairly easy build, with not many dependencies. Grab yourself the source for say, the linux game LBreakout2 ( ). Dont try and start by recompiling Firefox or Mplayer (both are by my rating hard compiles, and ive done them many times over the years). My suggestion to you, a person with no luck in compiling, is to start small. You basically download a script/spec type of file and then call it from a program and it downloads the src, and builds you a package you can then install using pacman (Arch equivalent to Yum). Its basically building from source, but automated (apparently Gentoo uses something similar). Now if someone came up with a solid 3rd party build system for RPM users, similar to the AUR system on Arch Linux, that would be highly useful. So after 10+ years of doing stuff like this, it gets really easy. Add to that the fact libFOX (which it uses) is built in a crazy awkward way on Redhat/Fedora, i have to rebuild that too. Problem is on anything Redhat/Fedora their has never been an rpm for it (including 3rd party repos), so it means i have to build it by hand. It is simple uses very little resources and does the job i want it for. Now cue a problem that has been in Redhat/Fedora for as long as i can remember. In the last 5 years ive done many LinuxFromScratch installs, and have built most things from source, because no distro provides everything, not even Debian. I am going to go slightly Offtopic with this, but i feel encouragement is i started out on this path i used Slackware 3 or 4 back then, nothing worked properly and if you needed some functionality, then you grabbed a source tarball and added it.
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