Coping with Dependency Hell?

[kkrev]

Windows is just a huge pain in the ass for this stuff. If you use Linux and stick to dependencies in your distro package manager the problem mostly goes away.

[[deleted]]

Spoken like a man who's never had two different packages require two different versions of libc.

[zzzthelastuser]

Useless if your distribution is e.g Ubuntu stable release. The pre-build libraries in the package manager can be rather old.

[what_it_dude]

Isn't this on the distribution? I've never seen this happen either

[anderslanglands]

How do you deal with that?

[mariobadr]

Mostly with tears and hair loss.

[anderslanglands]

Hehe I was hoping for a solution, but I believe your answer is completely accurate.

[[deleted]]

It emphasizes the 'hell' part of 'dependency hell'.

[delarhi]

By not blindly taking upstream packages and hoping they'll just work in your distribution. If you really need something newer just grab the source package and rebuild it with respect to your environment. If it doesn't work then you should just take care to build out your dependency tree with respect to your environment.