UNIX source installations made easier with GNU Source Installer

Now, we have had GUI options for package management for sometime now. But to my knowledge, this is the first time that I have seen anything like this for installing programs from ’source’!

GNU/Linux distributions and other UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems already offer a phletora of tools for installing software. These tools all rely on different package formats that enable users and administrators to quickly obtain additional functionality from their system.

The different GNU/Linux distributions put a lot of their effort into maintaining an updated and comprehensive list of ports/packages.

Sometimes, however, this great and respectable effort does not suffice, and our user remains with the only option to install from the source packages provided by the developers.
Some optional and less frequently used feature might be needed, and must be compiled-in. A package might be unavailable yet from vendor or distributor, and maybe it never will. Whatever the reason is, sometimes fetching a source package and building it is the best way to proceed. [Read the rest]