Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> [2002-09-15 15:09:55 +0100]: > There's a program called apt-src which I find does this nicely. I like Colin's suggestion best. But I wanted to note that Debian does not prevent doing things in the 'original source makefile way'. That is you can grab the source, patch as prefered, make, then make install into the /usr/local tree. If /usr/local/bin is ahead of /usr/bin in your path then you will get your locally installed versions before the system versions. If you put yourself into the 'staff' group in /etc/group, logout/login to take effect, then you can do install files in /usr/local as a non-root user. Debian won't overwrite copies in /usr/local. You are completely on your own there. This does lose the tracking ability that you mentioned. But it can be useful at times for a development machine. I would avoid doing that on any type of production machine. Bob
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