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  • Another Day For A GNU/Linux Master

    From Farley Flud@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 22 14:38:14 2025
    Listen up lackeys. Here's how the pros do it.

    A new version of Gnuplot has been released:

    <https://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/>

    Being a mathematician, I, of course, must update. I have
    scripts that can download and compile Gnuplot in mere minutes
    and thus it is no big deal.

    But Gnuplot depends on libcerf which also has a new version:

    <https://jugit.fz-juelich.de/mlz/libcerf>

    I already have libcerf installed and so I just built
    gnuplot with my script.

    [~]# ldd /usr/local/bin/gnuplot
    ...
    libcerf.so.2 => /usr/local/lib64/libcerf.so.2

    But oops! The new version of libcerf is 3.0 and it will be
    incompatible with gnuplot.

    Thus, I had to both, using my inimitable scripts, which involved
    only a few small minutes of time.

    [~]# ldd /usr/local/bin/gnuplot
    ...
    libcerf.so.3 => /usr/local/lib64/libcerf.so.3

    Now all things are good.

    Ain't GNU/Linux a grand adventure?

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

    But all a lackey can do is suck at his distro's teat.

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!


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  • From =?UTF-8?B?8J+HtfCfh7FKYWNlayBNYXJja@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 22 21:24:13 2025
    W dniu 22.06.2025 o 16:38, Farley Flud pisze:
    Listen up lackeys. Here's how the pros do it.

    A new version of Gnuplot has been released:

    <https://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/>

    But... Who care of new version of gnuplot?
    What is the advantage of new gnuplot version over version shiped with
    your Linux distro?

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  • From Farley Flud@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 22 21:48:26 2025
    On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 21:24:13 +0200, 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 wrote:


    But... Who care of new version of gnuplot?
    What is the advantage of new gnuplot version over version shiped with
    your Linux distro?


    That is not the thesis of the original post.

    GNU/Linux requires a thorough understanding of how the various disparate libraries work together and how a "master," and not a "lackey," must
    always be ready to deal with any mismatch or inconsistency.

    GNU/Linux is potent, but that potency can only be attained by individual
    user mastery and not by a reliance on any distro.

    A distro should only be a stepping stone to individual mastery.

    I hope that I make myself clear.


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