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[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 2023-04-27 at 23:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-04-27 at 17:03 -0400, Little Girl wrote:
> > Hey there,
> > 
> > Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > 
> > > alternatively one could find someone to create a snap package (or do
> > > it themselves), this is exactly where snap packages shine (making old
> > > unavailable packages available by using an old base snap (core18) to
> > > provide them to newer systems)
> > 
> > I hadn't thought about that, but now you've got my curiosity up.
> > There's an "extinct" package that I very sorely miss that I'd love to
> > use again. Its source files are available in the Ubuntu repository
> > archives, so I could grab it. I guess I'm going to have to learn how
> > to make a Snap to stuff it into. Thanks for the suggestion.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> it will be easy for you to learn how to build a snap. You are just
> missing one point yet. If your software depends on something else, you
> need to integrated this to your snap, too. Actually you could install
> all those dated dependencies without a snap, too. You could build with a
> PREFIX, such as /opt and you even could install several versions of
> foo.so into any shared lib directory.
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf

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