Difference between revisions of "Forum:Patching help"
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
(you can't patch a binary download, but you can download the source and patch that) |
|||
| Line 7: | Line 7: | ||
:Not directly. `apt-get install` is giving you a binary (i.e. pre-compiled) version that you can't patch against, because you aren't running the compiler yourself. However, what you can do is to download the source separately, and patch/compile/install that. It's possible to do this via apt, but I wouldn't recommend that because it's quite complex; downloading the source from nethack.org and following the instructions there may be easier. [[User:Ais523|Ais523]] ([[User talk:Ais523|talk]]) 18:08, 27 August 2015 (UTC) | :Not directly. `apt-get install` is giving you a binary (i.e. pre-compiled) version that you can't patch against, because you aren't running the compiler yourself. However, what you can do is to download the source separately, and patch/compile/install that. It's possible to do this via apt, but I wouldn't recommend that because it's quite complex; downloading the source from nethack.org and following the instructions there may be easier. [[User:Ais523|Ais523]] ([[User talk:Ais523|talk]]) 18:08, 27 August 2015 (UTC) | ||
| + | |||
| + | Will I have to uninstall the NetHack already running? | ||
| + | [[User:Jubilex|Jubilex]] ([[User talk:Jubilex|talk]]) 18:36, 27 August 2015 (UTC) | ||
Revision as of 18:36, 27 August 2015
I run NetHack from Linux via sudo apt-get install. Is there a way for me to apply patches?
- Not directly. `apt-get install` is giving you a binary (i.e. pre-compiled) version that you can't patch against, because you aren't running the compiler yourself. However, what you can do is to download the source separately, and patch/compile/install that. It's possible to do this via apt, but I wouldn't recommend that because it's quite complex; downloading the source from nethack.org and following the instructions there may be easier. Ais523 (talk) 18:08, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
Will I have to uninstall the NetHack already running? Jubilex (talk) 18:36, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
