Clean and reliable setup for dependency installation | Linux Today

Clean and reliable setup for dependency installation

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Pekka Paalanen
Apr 13, 2020

When you work on a piece of software, you usually want to be able to build and test it manually on your local system, but without compromising your system or destabilizing the distribution provided software. How do you install the dependencies you need that are not found in your current distribution, and how do you test your project if you need to install it first?

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