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greenolivia

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Registered: 2025-01-21

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Looking for Methods to Build Software in an Isolated Environment

For building software, I install build dependencies, and after building, I have a hard time uninstalling them. Is there any way to build and install software with customized configurations, experimenting without affecting the main system? Something similar to chroot. After experimenting, I would like to delete the directory and be done with it no leftovers. Is there any way to do this?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Looking for Methods to Build Software in an Isolated Environment

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Develo … ean_chroot -- basically how the packagers do it and exists for this purpose.