Ubuntu comes with a package manager (aptitude) so I guess I'm not sure why you got Apper?
You should just clone Git directly, though
like the one you pasted
what happened after you cloned?
gespinoz2019 11:45:10
Yes, I tried that route.
nasamuffin 11:45:23
if you just download the package, you won't have the source to modify :)
gespinoz2019 11:45:29
I tried to go into Makefile via Vim. I had to install Vim so I did.
I then tried to just do make
but then i got an error. I opened this chat in my windows os and the virtual machine with ubuntu has the error
so Im going to try and open the IRC in ubuntu real quick so I can copy/paste the error i got
nasamuffin 11:46:27
ok. Again, please use a paste tool like pastebin or git
IRC mangles it on every newline
gespinoz2019 11:46:38
ok
nasamuffin 11:46:53
Try this: sudo apt install libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev
and then try to make again
gespinoz2019 11:48:55
ok the error i had received was along the lines that I was missing an .h file. I looked for a solution. he fatal error was that <oppenssl/ssl.h> didn't exist and it was line 297 in the Makefile #include <openssl/ssl.h>
gespinoz2019 11:50:30
So i looked through the entire computer to see if it was somewhere odd. The documentation suggested that sometimes some files are in other folders and I was just gonna move it. I didn't find it. So i think maybe I can just delete that line from the Makefile itself. But then it would be missing things so I didn't know.
Let me try that sudo line you gave me first though!
nasamuffin 11:51:49
yeah, that sounds like missing deps
gespinoz2019 11:51:57
www.pastebin.com/nPTitCxi
nasamuffin 11:52:13
Yeah. That is exactly what that is
is that make error from before or after you tried to install deps
(the 'sudo apt install' line i sent)
gespinoz2019 11:52:33
before
Im trying what you sent now thou!
nasamuffin 11:52:59
What that line does is 1) shift you into superuser mode (sudo) and 2) install a bunch of packages using the package manager (apt)
libssl devkit, zlib devkit, curl devkit, expat devkit
devkit means it has the headers so you can build against them :)
so I think this will get you a lot farther
gespinoz2019 11:55:06
Ok great! It finished installing! let me check it out :)
nasamuffin 11:56:32
:D
gespinoz2019 11:58:05
I went back to the git directory in terminal and hit make again
nasamuffin 11:58:22
It will probably take a really long time
gespinoz2019 11:58:32
it seems like it's finally compiling! It's just spitting out a lot of CC lines one at a time
nasamuffin 11:58:39
if you want, you can try "make -j64" or some other silly high number - that will parallelize the build
gespinoz2019 11:58:42
That's awesome
nasamuffin 11:58:51
you can ctrl-C to cancel and try again multithreaded
er, -j$(nproc) might be better
dunno how many cores you gave your VM :)
gespinoz2019 11:59:19
like ram?
nasamuffin 11:59:26
processor :)
anyway, nproc will figure it out for you
"make -j$(nproc)"
gespinoz2019 11:59:45
Ooo ok
nasamuffin 11:59:48
or just be patient
either way
but, I personally find the build to be painfully slow
gespinoz2019 12:00:48
all right, i hit crt-C and then typed in "make -j$(nproc)
It's slow yeah, but it feels nice to see actual compiling after trying for the past two weeks lol
nasamuffin 12:01:20
hehehe
gespinoz2019 12:01:23
thank u emily!
nasamuffin 12:01:25
np
hope this unblocks you
dscho will probably be disappointed that you didn't get it working in windows, but I really didn't want you to sit and flail for as long as you did
gespinoz2019 12:02:00
Yeah I think it will def help.
nasamuffin 12:02:05
sweet!
gespinoz2019 12:02:36
Oh i got an error at the end
Ill copy it real quick
nasamuffin 12:02:51
sure
gespinoz2019 12:03:29
https://pastebin.com/tLugGnrE
nasamuffin 12:04:18
huh, never seen that before
https://jaamee.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/installing-git-on-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx/
"sudo apt install gettext"