[plug] Easy Installation: Linux Desktop Market

[Russell Steicke]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 08:41:25AM +0800, Timothy White wrote:
...
> I disagree. I install a number of things from src, purely because I
> can't get the latest version in a deb, or it depends on library's from
> unstable and I don't want to get them, or I want the package optimised
> for my architecture (amd64). I think you should not install library's
> from src, but installing a package that other packages shouldn't
> depend on, is no problem IMHO.

In that situation I generally try getting the debian source for the
package (apt-get source packagename), copying the debian/ directory
into the source tree of the newer version, mucking with the
debian/control and debian/changelog files, and building myself a new
package.  It's surprising how often that actually works.  And if I'm
careful with the version number, it'll get upgraded nicely when the
officially packaged version catches up.


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Russell Steicke

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