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Today in is that

2024-10-10 02:05:02.900068+02 by Dan Lyke 3 comments

Today in "is that *really* necessary?", Ubuntu upgrade renamed libgeographic-dev to libgeographiclib-dev.

And of course it doesn't want to link.

Fuck it. Statically compile everything. Don't actually upgrade anything until you need to. Also, I'm assuming that I'll never find the gtest repo again, because that seems to be giving all sorts of warnings now.

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#Comment Re: Today in is that made: 2024-10-10 10:04:34.20541+02 by: spc476

I had Ubuntu 22 running on a VM. One day it stated I could upgrade to Ubuntu 24. Stupidly I clicked "yes". That VM never worked again. Thankfully, I didn't use it for anything important (really, just to update the web browser every 20 minutes because Google can't keep from @#$@#$@# with webstandards and kids these days are all "ooooh! Shiny!" and feel the need to write bespoke web browsers in Javascript because the default web browser just can't cut it for some @W#$@#$ reason oh god I'm ranting aren't I? Okay, I'll stop now) and it took several hours to "reinstall" Ubuntu 22, which should be find until next month I'm guessing.

God I hate what's become of this industry.

#Comment Re: Today in is that made: 2024-10-11 13:32:41.964552+02 by: TheSHAD0W

spc, just curious, what VM manager were you using?

Linux OS upgrades have a significant chance to go awry in the best of times. That having been said, an upgrade inside a hands-off manager like proxmox ought to go fine...

#Comment Re: Today in is that made: 2024-10-11 13:32:41.964552+02 by: spc476

I'm using VirtualBox on Mac OS-X. Both are ... not the latest version, I'll admit. But they aren't that old. Of course, the perception today is that any piece of code older than 20 minutes old is ancient and should be taken out behind the shed. I hate that perception.

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