Compiling a hassle? Not any more.
Most linux distributions provide thousands of packages for our computing fun. Somehow they always seem to miss one or two packages that we just have to have. Either that or the package they do provide has, for one reason or none, missing functionality. Sometimes the packages are just plain broken.
In times like these it all boils down to us having to compile our own programs from the (commonly called) 'tarballs'. These are the source code of programs that can be compiled locally on our computers to give us what the distributions don't. Unfortunately because the programs are written by developers the compilation of those programs is often a confusing process for the uninitiated.
Usually it is a case of having to unpack the 'tarball' into a directory and running manually the so called "configure, make, make install" triplet or CMMI. It is not really that hard but for those used to a point'n'click computing lifestyle it can be downright daunting.
There is a program that I have used many times and is still an active project which makes the CMMI process a simple point'n'click affair.
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