On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 05:10:11AM -0500, Joshua Holland wrote:
> > sorry to disturb you, but as I'm a full newbee, could you explain me how
> > you install the trackpad_tool.
>
> I'm pretty new at this too, so let me remember what I did...
> Download the Trackpad file and gunzip it (gunzip filename). You'll then
> have a few files in whatever directory you downloaded the original too.
> There should be one that ends in '.c'. To compile it, type 'gcc
> filename.c'. (you need to have gcc). Then you'll have a file called
> 'a.out'. Rename it trackpad or something and move it to somwhere like
> /usr/local/bin or /usr/bin so you can just type it to run it. So:
or gcc -o trackpad trackpad.c
(-o means save output to this filename)
and you should not put custom (ie anything non-debian) in /bin or
/usr/bin, always /usr/local/{bin,sbin} (unless for some reason it must
be accessable before filesystems are mounted at boot) /usr/ belongs to
the debian packaging system so you should not mess with it, else your
changes be overwritten or the packaging system confused.
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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