----- Original Message ----- From: "Wesley Wannemacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Benj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 7:59 PM Subject: RE: Ok, please tell me how to install a package without the dpkg
> I don't think you need to be a programmer, usually the following works > for me to install from source: > > tar -xvzf tarball.tar.gz > cd tarball > /configure --help > /configure --options=enabled --other_options=disabled > make > make install Ok thanks, and because I would like usually to upgrade stuff, am I sure that the new files will correctly overwrite the old files in their specific directories ? Thanks, Benj
