HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 21:45:22 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: keep-alive X-Drupal-Cache: MISS Expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff Content-Language: en X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge X-Generator: Drupal 7 (http://drupal.org) Link: ; rel="canonical",; rel="shortlink" Vary: Accept-Encoding X-Request-ID: v-32128d86-911d-11e8-8969-22000aa54498 X-AH-Environment: prod X-Varnish: 183997625 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish-v4 X-Cache: MISS Accept-Ranges: bytes What do you do when an application isn't packaged for your Linux distro? | Opensource.com
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When a program isn't packaged for my distro, I... Package managers[2] make life so easy that many of us have forgotten what things were like in the olden days when getting a piece of software to work with your system was a real test of patience and endurance. But even so, not every piece of software comes readily packaged for your distribution of choice. Maybe you're lucky and it's a single file binary (from a trusted, verifiable source only, we hope!). Maybe it's a .tar.gz file[3] that you simply need to decompress.