RE: Use the source luke
On 16-Mar-99 Shaun Lipscombe wrote:
>
> I really really want to install Gnome, but the only reason I haven't
> done so yet is because I cannot decide whether to install by source,
> or by .deb. Normally I wouldn't worry about this, as I used to use
> another distribution (name not mentioned to protect the guilty) and so
> I had no choice. I recently installed debian and it is *very* good.
> The dselect program confused me at first, but now I am very familiar
> with it, and have changed my opinion regarding package management.
> Arghhh!!! what shall I do??
>
> Any opinions are welcome :)
>
How about the best of both worlds, download the orig.tar.gz, the dsc and the
diff.gz files and make your own packages.
dpkg-source -x packagefoo.dsc
cd into the created directory
debian/rules binary
Then you can install the debs like you had downloaded them.
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