– The C compiler identification is GNU 5.4.0
– The CXX compiler identification is GNU 5.4.0
– Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
– Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc – works
– Detecting C compiler ABI info
– Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
– Detecting C compile features
– Detecting C compile features - done
– Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
– Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ – works
– Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
– Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
– Detecting CXX compile features
– Detecting CXX compile features - done
– CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: release
– Found PkgConfig: /usr/bin/pkg-config (found version “0.29.1”)
– Checking for module ‘gtk±3.0>=3.16’
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.5/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:367 (message):
A required package was not found
Call Stack (most recent call first):
/usr/share/cmake-3.5/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:532 (_pkg_check_modules_internal)
CMakeLists.txt:222 (pkg_check_modules)
– Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also “/root/repo-rt/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log”.
Mixing distributions is almost never a good idea and prone to break things horribly in the long run. I would be surprised if Mint didn’t ship that package by default already.
You are right but I think Mint is directly derived from ubuntu and I read somewhere that the packages were compatible.
But I’m starting with Linux; I tried it there a few years ago but had been put off by the complexity when I wanted to go out of a system of pakages.
Now Microsoft’s arrogance gives me strong motivation to migrate from Win to Linux…
I think I’ve seen this as well, but the warning from everyone are quite valid. Though it may seem to work for the moment, it maybe worth checking somewhere (MINT support forums?) to make sure that what you’re doing is sane. At least checking the docs real quick couldn’t hurt.
This is true: I am running Mint 17 and happily installing packages from dhor/myway without issues. The base system is the same of a standard Ubuntu distribution.
Indeed Mint over-rides some packages from Ubuntu. They also pin some packages from Debian in there when necessary. As a long time Debian user, I would not recommend grabbing deb files from out side the distro and installing them, that will eventually lead to sadness.
PPAs indeed work well on Mint, this is much better than grabbing packages.
I use the LTS version of Xubuntu. In the past, when I tried compiling Rawtherapee from source, I ran into problems with dependencies. The required libraries were too new for the LTS version. This required me to grab packages from newer non-LTS versions of Xubuntu. So unless this practice has changed, I would essentially be grabbing packages outside of my versions repository. Maybe less risk than Linux Mint, but still a risk of breaking things.