Re: Installing a program from source

2005-06-01 Thread Rhys Hardwick
Thanks for the help guys, I shall give all those a look. Seems as if there are more tools than I thought for the job. Rhys ___ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos

Re: Installing a program from source

2005-05-31 Thread Rhys Hardwick
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 19:20, Lee Braiden wrote: > Use dh_make, if you can, or else checkinstall, to make and install an > appropriate debian package. Then, it can be uninstalled (often > automatically) when a newer package is available. checkinstall seems to be the better of the two, but as Camer

Installing a program from source

2005-05-31 Thread Rhys Hardwick
Hey there, I want to install a program from source. For example, I have downloaded the latest CVS snapshot of xmms to put my own patches onto. I know how to compile and install. Is it ok to compile and install, and then, if another version is released under apt that I want to install, just i