I recently wanted to run tegaki, and my experience is pretty much summed up by the meme. I consider myself fairly tech-savvy, but I just couldn’t figure out how to compile it. So I just gave up, downloaded the .exe and put it into a fresh wine prefix. After installing CJK fonts, everything ran fine. Now I’m trying to get gpaint to work. My distro recently dropped support for [[[ EDIT: gtk2 is alive and well. I was just being and idiot and searching for gtk+2 (which I am fairly pissed about, since it’s the last good version of GTK+), so I have to set that up manually as well.gtk2, when the package is actually called gtk+2. ]]] I installed all of the dependencies that ./configure told me to, but I still kept getting obscure errors when running make.
So, here’s my question: what tools make the process of running abandonware easier? Docker containers? Also, what can I use to package abandonware in order to make it easy for other people to run? Flatpak? Appimages? Any advice is appreciated!
Also, inb4 “just find a modern alternative”. That would be a reasonable solution. I don’t want reasonable solutions!
There is. What you’re describing is a package manager. Overall, they are a great idea. It means devs can create slimmer “dynamically linked” executables that rely on libraries installed by the package manager. The w*ndows equivalent of this is DLL’s. Another advantage is that urgent security updates can be propagated much faster, since you don’t have to wait for each app that uses a vulnerable library to update it on their own.This model goes wrong when software depends on an outdated library. Even if the package maintainers still support that outdated version, often it’s difficult to install separate