Hey fellow Linux enthusiasts! I’m curious to know if any of you use a less popular, obscure or exotic Linux distribution. What motivated you to choose that distribution over the more mainstream ones? I’d love to hear about your experiences and any unique features or benefits that drew you to your chosen distribution.
There’s more than one way to skin a cat. Reading the .dep files is more advanced than how I do it.
There are a ton of community maintained install scripts for packages that don’t ship with the OS. Check out slackbuilds.org. Search for nicotine. It lists the dependencies there with links to their scripts. And it tells you if there are optional dependencies for additional features.
Sbopkg is an extra program that automates downloading, building and installing slackbuilds and the source code for whatever you’re trying to install. And you can queue up multiple programs and run them in a batch.