on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:03:51AM -0000, vdemart@supereva.it (vdemart@supereva.it) wrote: > > I resolved some problems with sane and my usb scanner by downloading > the source code of sane from the official sane site and compiling the > new-brand programs. (Obviously) I've found that the various files > have been located in directories quite different from those of the > official sane-whatever.deb package (namely, in /usr/local/bin intead > of /usr/bin/, in /usr/local/etc intead of /etc, and so forth)making it > difficult, for instance, to de-install the software. My question is > as simple as that: Needing for wahtever reason to compile a software > not provided by debian is there any way to 'debianize' it in order to > deal with it by means of dpkg or dselect? > Ciao > Vittorio Please wrap your lines at 72 characters. The 'equivs' package does this. You can also roll your own debian package if you wish. Might also want to look at stow. Heard of 'em all, but don't use 'em myself. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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