On Wednesday, 11. July 2001 00:36, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > tim wrote: > > Hello > > > > Konquereor crashes on me with most javascripts, since the last > > update in sid. Dissable is not really an option so I like to try > > installing > > > >>from cvs. > > > > I have never compiled Kde or any other "big" thing except kernels0. > > My question is whether I have to uninstall my running KDE or just > > "make it with prefix ". Will this possibly mess my system ? > > > > In generally any tips are welcome! > > > > tim > > There are usually debian packaging scripts included in the sources, > so that you can download the sources, change into the source > directories and just call dpkg-buildpackage (from dpkg-dev) to build > debian packages from the sources. Sometimes, the file /debian/rules > cannot be executed in this process because of wrong permissions and > dpkg complains, then you just have to chmod. When you install those > generated .deb packages, older versions are automatically uninstalled > by dpkg. If you've already installed something by make install, I'd > recommend to do a make uninstall first. I think the deb installation > is much cleaner than other ways. > > Cheers, > > Stephan
Thanks very much!
