Could someone show me how to compile things from github?

[Michael]

I'll give her a try but first, do I need to uninstall the current
version(which I installed with a package manager (pacman). Yes I will
modify your instructions to do so with my package manager.

On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 3:15 PM Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> > Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> >> I have never compiled a program from github. Could someone
> >> show me how to compile darktable from github?
> On 2021-10-19 09:19, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> > This one is kind of a project per project evaluation.
> > but basic steps are usual git clone the repo, find the makefiles
> > etc, build, install.
>
> You should probably not git clone the thing unless you're going to be
> contributing to the project.  Downloading the release file (the .tar.xz
> file mentioned in the other branch of the thread) will take up less disk
> space, and you don't need the history and comments if you're not a
> project developer.
>
> Darktable is in GTK+ and requires Lua, cmake, and I think libxml as
> well.  I believe you should start off with "apt-get install lua
> gtk-devel cmake" at the very least before doing ./build.sh .  The
> build.sh script should check for all dependencies and die if there are
> missing headers or libraries.  Install the missing stuff, then try
> again, repeat until it works.  I think it puts the resulting binary in
> /opt for some reason by default, you may want to fix that with a better
> --prefix option to build.sh before running that.
>
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