There used to be no packaging systems like today. We had to go through a whole series of dependency problems, which at that time were called the “hell of dependencies”. If this library depended on some other libraries, then we had to download the source libraries and compile them. If the source code of the software depended on other libraries, then we also had to download the source code of this library and compile it before compiling the software that we wanted to install. We had to compile the software from the source code in order to use it. Various Linux software was distributed only as source code many years ago.
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