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checkinstall my beloved (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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even though checkinstall is buggy and old, when it works it's great.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"installing from tarball" is simply moving files around

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I can't let you do that, Dave - NixOS, probably

lots of folders on the system are read-only and get changed when you run rebuild