Re: [tlug] Installing from source

[CL <az.4tlug@example.com>]

On 9/28/18 11:22 PM, Curt Sampson wrote:
> You start to get into nightmares like this (changing libc on a system
> is decidedly 'non-trivial') and you should really, really look to see
> if you can run what you need in a Docker container.

Thanks for the advice.  The entire effort was beginning to resemble one 
of those Russian dolls where every change and update led to the need for 
another set of installed base programs, each with at least five unmet 
dependencies.  After three or four rounds, I decided to follow the 
advice of Mason Williams in his poem "How to Write a Sonnet"

"Hey, nonny, nonny, pissonnit"

Thanks to all of the changes I'd made to this PCs O/S and what appears 
to be some internal conflicts set in motion by VirtualBox (one issue) 
and Firefox HTML5 (a different one), I stripped the HDD and reinstalled 
from scratch.  After restoring my last known set of good settings, the 
problems I was futzing around to get rid of were no longer present.  So, 
going nuclear made a huge difference in productivity. (Please, no one 
tell that to Trump.)

CL