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    i hate that it's very often like this (sh.itjust.works)
    submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What could possibly go wrong with running precompiled binaries that were linked to a set of precompiled libraries with a completely different set of precompiled libraries.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    You're not wrong, it's definitely not something a n00b should attempt in most cases. But I've done this before to save myself the need for distrobox. A lot of proprietary software only offers .deb, but is usually either statically linked or comes with its own set of nearly all the libraries it needs. So just extracting and running it often does the trick on non-debian distros like Fedora in my case.

    Seriously though, just use distrobox or see if there's an unofficial package for your distro that you trust (AUR/copr/ppa/OBS). It's more straight forward especially if you don't know what you're doing.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Nothing, lol. I have no issues running precompiled binaries on a fucking source-based distro.

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I don't think the libraries would be in much different places but I think it would come down to the application and imprlementation

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    Not the locations. The versions. Your libssl-1.0 isn't the same as mine. There often are differences in major, minor or patch versions. There even are differences in compile options where a feature present in one is not compiled in another. E.g. ciphers available in libssl.