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Autocrap is a bloated obsolete stuff that is mostly replaced with other tools like cmake or meson. There's no need to learn it today.
Hell maybe I do need to learn some shit, because I was under the impression that you cd into the folder after you untar it, then type
./configuremakesudo make install, but the last two packages I attempted to install from source like this just did nothing.The first step after you untar is always "open the README and look for build instructions."
Thankfully, none were included lol. I think they assumed I already knew.