Re: [PLUG] new @ debian/apt maintenance

["Michael C. Toren" <mct@toren.net>]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 07:10:14PM -0500, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> I've occasionally found it useful to install with
> 
>     ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pkg-name/
>     make
>     make install
> 
> It dirties my PATH a bit, but it makes it easier to clean up when,
> some day, the debian package catches up.  Just put
> /usr/local/pkg-name/bin before /usr/bin in your path.

I do this as well, however one slight change is that afterwards I symlink
the binaries from /usr/local/bin and the man pages from /usr/local/man,
etc, so that no modifications to the $PATH are necessary.

-mct

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