Okay, so today I messed around with this thing called “lharris,” and let me tell you, it was a bit of a ride. I’d heard some buzz about it and figured, why not give it a shot? So, I started by just grabbing the code from the main site. They had this big button that said “Download,” so I clicked that and waited.
Once I got the files, I opened up the folder and just stared at it for a bit. It wasn’t super clear what to do first. But then I saw a file named “INSTALL,” so I opened that. It had some instructions, but they weren’t the easiest to follow. Anyway, I managed to figure out that I needed to run some commands in the terminal. I’m not a terminal whiz, but I know the basics.
So I typed in the first command they listed, something like ./configure, and hit enter. Stuff started happening, text scrolling by real fast. I just sat there, hoping I didn’t break anything. After a minute or two, it finished. Then there was another command, make, which I ran. This one took a lot longer, like, I went and made a sandwich while it was running.
When I came back, it was done, thank goodness. One last command, sudo make install, and boom, it was supposedly installed. I wasn’t really sure what to do next, to be honest. I tried typing lharris into the terminal, and it seemed like something happened, but it wasn’t clear what. So, I went back to the website and dug around in their documentation.
Turns out, you gotta configure it a bit. I found this config file they talked about, opened it up, and started tweaking things. There were a bunch of options, and honestly, I didn’t know what half of them did. I just kinda guessed and changed a few things that seemed important. Saved the file, and tried running lharris again.
This time, it actually did something! I saw some output in the terminal, and it looked like it was working. I played around with different settings in the config file, running it each time to see what changed. It was a lot of trial and error, but eventually, I got it doing what I wanted.
Here are some steps that I did:
- Downloaded the source code.
- Opened install instructions.
- Ran ./configure.
- Ran make.
- Ran sudo make install.
- Edited the config file.
- Tested and ran until it worked.
It wasn’t the smoothest process, but I learned a lot. And hey, now I can say I got “lharris” up and running. It’s pretty cool, actually. Not something I’d use every day, but definitely a fun little experiment.
