Please, never run plain “sudo make install” on a package managed system. With linux from scratch it might make sense… Doing so will “install” the thing (copy the files), but the copied files are foreign to the package manager. You cannot easily undo this, and can cause issues in future.
You had a compiler error about missing header file, libXft is from Xorg project. “devel” versions of packages usually provide these files.
st
is from suckless project so it doesn’t need much to be “installed”: copy the built binaries into ~/bin/
or /opt/
and set your user PATH
to look into those dirs. Check your user env
if you need to modify the PATH
.
I think the difference with Dolphin is that it now emulates an extinct system(s), so it cannot possibly compete with the actual thing. They did have a close call last year, if I remember, and they pretty quickly went into “jettison all illegal shit out of the code base NOW.” -mode.