Re: Mixing binary installation with installation from source code
Tom, if you throw things in /usr/local, apt (as well as dpkg, dselect,
etc..) promise to leave those things alone. The gnome configure script
probably supports --prefix=/usr/local -- that doesn't mean it will be
seamless, but it shouldn't be too bad. :)
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 07:57:38AM -0400, Thomas Epperly wrote:
> I am relatively new to Linux, so please forgive me if I am asking a stupid
> question. I am wondering how Debian's installation system (apt) handles
> situations where you go back and forth from installation from a binary .deb
> distribution and installing from a tarball source distribution.
>
> I have a particular situation in mind. I've got various packages installed
> for GNOME via apt from network sources. Now I would like to compile GNOME
> 1.0.40 beta, so I can help test the beta. GNOME 1.0.40 is currently only
> available as tar files of source code. If I compile and install from a tar
> distribution and overwrite the apt installation, does apt's database of
> installed software become invalid (i.e. apt thinks version x.y.z is
> installed when in reality version x.y.z+34 is installed? If I later want to
> install GNOME from a distribution of .deb files, am I looking for trouble?
>
> In general, is there a safe way to install version x.y from .deb followed by
> x.y+1 from source distribution followed by x.y+2 from .deb followed by ...?
> Does apt automagically do the right thing, or do I as administrator have to
> do the right thing?
>
> Tom
>
>
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