Could someone show me how to compile things from github?

[Retro64XYZ]

Why are you doing this?

On 10/19/21 11:10, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Okay, I went into the darktable section of github and read the 
> README.md  file and from that I would say it is perty straight 
> forward. Seeing as how I have darktable installed currently I won't 
> think I need to worry about dependencies so I would uninstall the 
> current version of darktable and then (on the README.md) go to the 
> 'Get the source section' and then start building. Is this correct?
>
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 12:23 PM Retro64XYZ via PLUG-discuss 
> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>     https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/download/release-3.6.1/darktable-3.6.1.tar.xz
>
>     sudo apt install checkinstall
>
>     tar -zxvf darktable-3.6.1.tar.gz
>
>     cd darktable-3.6.1
>
>     ./configure
>
>     make
>
>     sudo checkinstall
>
>
>     If it fails, you probably need some supporting items. Never do a
>     sudo make install on a debian or ubuntu based system without using
>     checkinstall instead. You can automatically roll back or upgrade
>     without issues if you use checkinstall.
>
>     On 10/19/21 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.
>>
>>     Each project individually will have a different process.
>>
>>
>>     On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 8:47 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss
>>     <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>         I have never compiled a program from github. Could someone
>>         show me how to compile darktable from github?
>>
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