On Mon, 24 May 1999, Otgonbayar Uuye wrote: > 1. How am I supposed to install programs from tarball source code? I can > untar and compile them, > but then the debian package system doesn't recognize it. > > For instance I have downloaded qt-1.44.tar.gz, compiled and installed it. > Then qt installs itself in > /usr/local which violates the debian policy as I understand. KDE does the > same thing. As my > system doesn't recognize them, it wouldn't configure it properly. Also how do > I uninstall them then?
Actually, that is exactly Debian policy: programs you install yourself go under /usr/local, the distro never touches it. If you make a deb from the sources, then you should of course make it not touch /usr/local.
