“First of all you need to have a Friend first to convert before
attempting to convert. And in order to have a Friend you need to
have a Life right? Let me try to make it simpler for you my fellow
geek: Now you have a package named whatever-3.42.tar.gz, what will
you do? Untar it, then configure, make, make install right? But you
will need a compiler first right? Now think of Life as your
compiler, all of us have Life, but we need to recompile Life first
using the -lessgeek and -moreoutgoing flags in order to create Life
suitable for Friend. So in Life directory do the following:sudo make install -lessgeek -moreoutgoing
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