Sun, 09 Jan 2011 06:00:21 -0600, Christopher Nicholson-Sauls wrote: > On 01/08/11 20:18, Walter Bright wrote: >> Vladimir Panteleev wrote: >>> On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:34:19 +0200, Walter Bright >>> <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Yeah, I could spend an afternoon doing that. >>> >>> sudo apt-get build-dep meld >>> wget >>> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/meld/1.5/meld-1.5.0.tar.bz2 tar >>> jxf meld-1.5.0.tar.bz2 >>> cd meld-1.5.0 >>> make >>> sudo make install >>> >>> You're welcome ;) >>> >> Thanks, I'll give it a try! > > I say you should consider moving away from *Ubuntu and to something more > "developer-friendly" such as Gentoo, where the command to install meld > is just: > emerge meld > > ...done. And yes, that's an install from source. I just did it myself, > and it took right at one minute.
Gentoo really needs a high-end computer to run fast. FWIW, the same meld takes 7 seconds to install on my ubuntu. That includes fetching the package from the internet (1-2 seconds). Probably even faster on Arch.