On 06/21/2008 10:05 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
Hi, all,
While I've been using Debian for about 4 years, I've been staying pretty
much within the supplied packages.
However, now I find with Etch I need to install iptstate V2.2.1. The
one which comes with the stable version is 2.1.1; while 2.2.1 is
available on testing, I would need to install a lot of other packages
from testing - which I would rather not do on a production server.
It's been suggested I try to install the package from source - but I'm
not sure how to do that in this case. I can download the source and
have the compiler installed - but what else?
I would appreciate any guidance here.
TIA.
First, you would probably need the build-essentials package
aptitude install build-essential
Then make sure that a 'deb-src' line exists in your
/etc/apt/sources.list, so you can easily get the source. For example,
you might add this:
deb-src http://debian.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/debian lenny main contrib non-free
Then you need the build-dependencies for iptstate 2.2.1:
mkdir ~/build
cd ~/build
apt-get build-dep iptstate=2.2.1-1.1
That retrieves the source files for the version of iptstate in Sid
(probably Lenny too). This part may not work if the build-deps are not
in Etch.
If the previous step works, you're ready to retrieve the source for
iptstate:
cd ~/build
apt-get source iptstate=2.2.1-1.1
Then you would go into the source directory (probably
~/build/iptstate-2.2.1/), read the instructions and build the program.
When you configure it, make sure you configure it to go into /usr/local
or /opt. Other places on the filesystem belong to other O/S functions.
Good luck.
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