What do you do when an application isn't packaged for your Linux distro? | Linux Today

What do you do when an application isn’t packaged for your Linux distro?

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Jul 27, 2018

Software isn’t always born ready-to-install. A package maintainer does the work to make sure each release works with your Linux distribution.

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