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This is linux times ten. I use it all the time, but as soon as you have a problem even remotely outside the norm you’re screwed unless you’re steeped in knowledge for the particular distro you work with. Your quest for an answer will result in: 2-3 other people with the same question, but no responses. A half dozen answers for your problem yet a distro version for which the answer no longer works. A couple lengthy, well-thought out answers that require multiple terminal entries and dependency installations yet still doesn’t work after carefully following the instructions.
./configure not found.
Installs configure.
Still doesn’t work.
Anyway, lol, as much as I like linux and have a crapload of instances running, it sure is a pain in the ass.
Yeah, been fighting something on mine for a few weeks now.
Search issue - Add this line to the config file
Adds line to file, nothing changes, Google more - sometimes you also have to add this and this (doesn't explain why only sometimes)
Adds this and this. Fixes problem while it's booting but then goes back to being fucked when the frontend launches
Googles more - only other solution I can find I can't do because my hardware doesn't support it.
Problems like that are incredibly frustrating. What entries you make look right, but somehow the result is wrong. I usually just assume somewhere along the way the authors of the instructions forgot something incredibly basic like permissions. Because they have their system set up so that they already have them set for their user or something so they don’t have to enter them every time they work on something, so they never think about it and spell out those steps when writing help responses. While help is often well intentioned (and I always appreciate someone’s help) there’s always the opportunity for them to forget what they didn’t know at the most basic level.