Re: What do I do with tarballs?

[Mitch Blevins <mblevin@mindspring.com>]

In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> dselect is great, but what do I do when there is no deb package for the
> soft I want? I know of course how to install somethng from a tarball, my
> question is just: where do I do it? Where do I put the package etc. and
> make sure I am not messing up dpkg? Are there any conventions for that?
> Is there any doc that explains that?

dpkg will not put any files underneatch /usr/local/, so you can
install in there (this is usually the default, anyway) without worrying
about stomping on dpkg, or vice-versa.

-Mitch