Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>:
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 05:19:49PM -0700, Jeff Grossman <jeff@stikman.com> was heard to say:
Manually installed packages have status "i " while automatically
installed ones have "i A".
They have a "c" next to them.
So what you did is you removed the Debian package and then ran "make
install", right?
In that case the package tools are completely unaware that you've done
anything. As long as you installed into /usr/local/, that's fine. If
you installed any files outside /usr/local, /opt and /home, you should
uninstall the software and reinstall it into one of those directories;
otherwise you risk having the package system stomp on what you've done.
And to answer your original question: you don't need to tell aptitude
anything. As far as it's concerned, those packages aren't installed at
all.
... Which strikes me as a dim idea. He does need to tell aptitude
something. If they were installed outside the pkg mgmt system, you'd
like it to know that, especially wrt dependencies. Aptitude:
Installing php; need apache ...
"What? But apache's in /usr/local!" In some way, aptitude should be
made aware of that fact.