Re: installing debian things and compiling your own stuff
Aaron F Young <aaron@Logopolis.rdu90.com> wrote:
>i'm very new to debian
>
>though i've been doing linux for a few years now
>
>i'm making my way through all the documentation
>
>but there is something i'm not seeing right now (meaning i am not sure
>where this is in the docs i'm reading so if you know, let me know)
>
>but i want to be able to tell dselect/apt-get (which are just awesome by
>the way) that i have perl installed, but i want it to be the perl that
>i've compiled
Try the equivs package. Beware that Perl is rather complex and deeply
embedded in the Debian distribution, so it may not be easy to get the
dependencies right.
>i'm using unstable packages for potato 2.2r3
No such thing. :) unstable is a different distribution.
By the way, the Debian Perl maintainer is working on 5.6.1 at the
moment, so you might find it easier to wait for a week or two until
that's done.
>of course i missed the Dpkg and Debian modules in my new directories
>like an idiot and had to manually copy them over there
What, in /usr/share/perl5? <scared> You really need to get the
configuration of your home-built Perl at least similar to the one
shipped with Debian, otherwise you can't expect packages to work.
Looking at the .diff.gz in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/perl/
might be a good start. </scared>
>I know there is a way to get the source distributions, but i'm very
>fuzzy on that right now
Put deb-src lines in /etc/apt/sources.list similar to the existing deb
lines and run 'apt-get source <packagename>'.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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