[brudgers]

I run Linux and installing stuff is often a bit painful. Yesterday, I was looking at Pharo and Squeak. Both are shipped as binaries and both require manually adding libraries (386) before installing on a 64bit OS.

It was then that I sort of got the BSD idea of just installing everything as source code. The time spent compiling might be roughly equivalent to the time spent trying to find information and go through the steps for installing a binary...and I hate to think about how many times has 'apt install' has installed a really old version of some tool.

Anyway, I have a bash script that installs my significant tools. But it's my script for my tools and I don't expect someone else's would be as good nor would mine be as good as someone else's.

Good luck.