

It is the same for all the dependencies of Gnuastro. You will notice that Gnuastro’s version in some operating systems is more than 10 versions old! Your operating system’s pre-built software might not be the most recent release.įor example, Gnuastro itself is also packaged in some package managers.Here are some basic reasons behind this recommendation. However, we recommend that you build the Mandatory dependencies yourself from source (all necessary commands and links are given in the respective section). The most basic way to install a package on your system is to build the packages from source yourself.Īlternatively, you can use your operating system’s package manager to download pre-compiled files and install them. Previous: Bootstrapping dependencies, Up: Dependencies
