Re: Not using dselect or the likes
Hi Karsten,
Thanks a lot for your helpful answer.
By the way, I cannot control the wrapping of the messages because I often use a webmail :-(.
Ciao
Vittorio
>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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