Re: Mixing binary installation with installation from source code

1999-09-27 Thread Seth R Arnold
Tom, if you throw things in /usr/local, apt (as well as dpkg, dselect, etc..) promise to leave those things alone. The gnome configure script probably supports --prefix=/usr/local -- that doesn't mean it will be seamless, but it shouldn't be too bad. :) On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 07:57:38AM -0400, Th

Mixing binary installation with installation from source code

1999-09-27 Thread Thomas Epperly
I am relatively new to Linux, so please forgive me if I am asking a stupid question. I am wondering how Debian's installation system (apt) handles situations where you go back and forth from installation from a binary .deb distribution and installing from a tarball source distribution. I have a p