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Re: [Fwd: trackpad-g3 powerbook]



On Tue, 23 May 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:

> 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)

oops sory about the confusion, I have'nt seen that trackpad_tool is a
program.

As I'm new dealing with kernel, I was afraid, thinking it was something
realy specific.

> 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.

I've put it in /usr/local/bin as most of the stuff I install.

	but thanks a lot, for the quick and usefuls anwser

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