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Re: compiling a program



    Hi Philipp,

I generally use the 'make install remove'. It seems
to work well here for source I build locally. *tgz*

.deb files are pretty easy to handle. just read up on dpkg.

good luck.

On Saturday 24 February 2001 07:05, Philipp Bliedung wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have simple question concerning compiling a programm ....
> When I compile a program from the sources and it beakes for whatever
> reason, how can I get rid of all the files that were created so far or
> how can I remove this 'broken' program ?  Is there anything like
> 'apt-get -f install' which is used for .deb files ?
>
> And how can I find out if a new version of a package, for example libc6,
> depends on any other package? For example I tried to compile a
> movie-player but it needed a newer version of libc6, which I don't have,
> so how can I find out if I need any other package for libc6 to work?
> (I'm still using the 2.2.17 kernel...)
>
> TIA!
> Philipp

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