Could someone show me how to compile things from github?

[Michael]

to learn how to use github

On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 2:12 PM Retro64XYZ via PLUG-discuss <
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> 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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>> Stephen
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