Hi Karsten, Thanks a lot for your helpful answer. By the way, I cannot control the wrapping of the messages because I often use a webmail :-(. Ciao Vittorio >on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:03:51AM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> I resolved some problems with sane and my usb scanner by downloading >> the source code of sane from the official sane site and compiling the >> new-brand programs. (Obviously) I've found that the various files >> have been located in directories quite different from those of the >> official sane-whatever.deb package (namely, in /usr/local/bin intead >> of /usr/bin/, in /usr/local/etc intead of /etc, and so forth)making it >> difficult, for instance, to de-install the software. My question is >> as simple as that: Needing for wahtever reason to compile a software >> not provided by debian is there any way to 'debianize' it in order to >> deal with it by means of dpkg or dselect? >> Ciao >> Vittorio > >Please wrap your lines at 72 characters. > >The 'equivs' package does this. You can also roll your own debian package if >you wish. Might also want to look at stow. > >Heard of 'em all, but don't use 'em myself. > >-- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal > http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org > >
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