ZephyrQ wrote: > ...Will I mess up the system if I choose to 'upgrade' a package by > compiling from sources (in this case just a game)?
If you are talking about this sequence: tar xzvf program-X-Y.tar.gz cd program-X.Y ./configure make make check make install Then you should be okay because that will install into /usr/local by default. Make sure you are in the 'staff' group so that you can run the 'make install' as yourself and not need root. If you are not root at the time it is very hard to break your system. sudo addgroup $(whoami) staff The log out and log back in again to have the group change take effect. The /usr/local tree is writable by group staff. Once you are in group staff in addition to your normal groups then you can write to the /usr/local tree as yourself. This is much safer than using root for that purpose. Alternatively you can install into your own $HOME directory. ./configure --prefix=$HOME The rest is the same. Then of course because it is your own home directory you don't need any additional groups. But no one else can access the files because they are your private copy. > I'm on Etch, but thinking of going up to Lenny...has it stabilized a > bit? (Realizing that it can be a *long* time between stable upgrades...) Etch is barely three months old! It was released on April 8th, 2007. But if that is not new enough then I can't recommend Testing. Instead I would use Sid. By the nature of the release process Testing sometimes has blockage issues. But of course Sid is the bleeding edge and you shouldn't run Sid unless you can handle the churn there. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
