Aaron F Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i'm very new to debian > >though i've been doing linux for a few years now > >i'm making my way through all the documentation > >but there is something i'm not seeing right now (meaning i am not sure >where this is in the docs i'm reading so if you know, let me know) > >but i want to be able to tell dselect/apt-get (which are just awesome by >the way) that i have perl installed, but i want it to be the perl that >i've compiled
Try the equivs package. Beware that Perl is rather complex and deeply embedded in the Debian distribution, so it may not be easy to get the dependencies right. >i'm using unstable packages for potato 2.2r3 No such thing. :) unstable is a different distribution. By the way, the Debian Perl maintainer is working on 5.6.1 at the moment, so you might find it easier to wait for a week or two until that's done. >of course i missed the Dpkg and Debian modules in my new directories >like an idiot and had to manually copy them over there What, in /usr/share/perl5? <scared> You really need to get the configuration of your home-built Perl at least similar to the one shipped with Debian, otherwise you can't expect packages to work. Looking at the .diff.gz in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/perl/ might be a good start. </scared> >I know there is a way to get the source distributions, but i'm very >fuzzy on that right now Put deb-src lines in /etc/apt/sources.list similar to the existing deb lines and run 'apt-get source <packagename>'. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
