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From: Matt Connell <matt@×××××××.tech>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] GNU Jami
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 13:25:26
Message-Id: 92b5970d23956acd69e9bde1324e2c830a28aa42.camel@connell.tech
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] GNU Jami by "wkuz@op.pl"
1 On Thu, 2022-07-21 at 15:15 +0200, wkuz@××.pl wrote:
2 > Does anybody know a reasonable way to install GNU Jami on Gentoo?
3
4 I've had success with installing rpm/dpk and installing a package
5 intended for another system. You might need to do some minor repairs
6 with directories, but it is an option.
7
8 Many published ebuilds actually already reference .deb files from
9 github et al and manipulate the results to adapt them for Gentoo.
10
11 > do I have to make my own or just git clone the repo and do it all by
12 > hand?
13
14 The nice thing about Gentoo is that you typically have a build
15 environment for most things already at hand. I've had success with
16 this as well.