Re: [PLUG] new @ debian/apt maintenance

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

sean finney wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 07:27:42PM -0500, Michael C. Toren wrote:
>  
>
> > 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.
> >    
>
> what i typically do is:
>
> apt-get install stow
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/programname-version
> make
> make install
> cd /usr/local/stow
> stow programname-version
>
> for those not familiar with stow, it's like a depot that doesn't suck.
> for those not familiar with either of these, it takes everything in
> /usr/local/stow/foo/bin and symlinks it to /usr/local/bin for you,
> etc, etc.  makes managing compiled from source software super easy.
>  

OK, maybe I shouldn't give up.

I have used the prefix parameter with previous OOo installs, and stow, 
looks good but it may break the sole Debian specific (or as they put it 
"extra files supplied by Debian that are not part of the
upstream source").

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