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noisy_boy • today at 7:34 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

> "the binaries" are a tarball whose instructions refer back to the previous document, whose "Install > Linux" section starts "from source" and says "go obtain Rust > 1.88", so all of the previous problems still apply.

Again with the assertions without checking things. This is the path of "the binaries":

https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/releases/tag/v0.39.0

I downloaded the file myself and extracted to see:

    $ > ls -l jj-v0.39.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz 
    -rw-r--r--. 1 xxxx xxxx 10373711 Mar xx xx:xx jj-v0.39.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz
    $ > tar xzvf jj-v0.39.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz 
    ./
    ./README.md
    ./LICENSE
    ./jj
    $ > ls -l jj
    -rwxr-xr-x. 1 xxxx xxxx 27122184 Mar  5 02:33 jj
    $ > file jj
    jj: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), static-pie linked, BuildID[sha1]=70d48428bc2100069e6813aff97e3dce8d2bb4a0, not stripped
    $ > ./jj version
    jj 0.39.0-d9689cd9b51b4139d2842fcf6c30f65f4eed8cd1
    $ >
It is overconfident low-skill users like you that bring a bad name to Linux.

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Arainach • today at 7:52 AM

From your link, at the very top: "See the installation instructions to get started".

Not "figure out how to extract a tarball, find somewhere unspecified on your path to put things blah blah" but "to get started go read this doc whose first step is to install rust, which your package manager isn't capable of".

This is a fairly standard Linux experience, not one reserved for developer tools.

On Windows, if you're not going through an app store you get an EXE or MSI installer that you double click and it does everything else necessary. Every time.

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