Stefan Langerman wrote: > > Hi, > > dselect is great, but what do I do when there is no deb package for the > soft I want? I know of course how to install somethng from a tarball, my > question is just: where do I do it? Where do I put the package etc. and > make sure I am not messing up dpkg? Are there any conventions for that? > Is there any doc that explains that?
This came up a while back. Take a look at, http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9902/msg00765.html for more info. hth, Kent