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Re: Compiling Packages



You might try compililing the source by hand. Go into
/usr/src/exim, type `./configure` then `make` then `make
install` (if the first make worked). You still might have
problems, but often that works just fine.

If that doesn't work you might try downloading and compiling
the original exim source from wherever its home is. You
might also try compiling libdb3 from source... if things
break you can always delete the libdb3.so file(s) and
reinstall libdb2. (libdb is not so critical as to disable
you're system or anything. dpkg and apt will both work
without it, at least).

If you do these things you will want to create dummy deb
packages to satisfy dependencies. Look at the equivs package
for doing this.

On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 09:50:28AM +0200, Sean Preston wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have Debian 2.2 R3 installed which comes with exim version 3.12  I do not
> want ot upgrade my base system to testing or unstable as the server is a
> production server and I am not sure what problems may arise.  So I setup my
> apt sources to have deb-src for testing and got the source for exim 3.31
> which is in there.  I am now having a problem creating the packages.  I
> used the command deb-buildpackage (is this the correct command?) which
> created them all but the problem I have is that the new exim needs libdb3
> and libdb2 but when trying to install libdb3 it conflicts with libdb2 and
> too many things require libdb2.  How do I get around this problem?
> 
> Thanks
> Sean
> 
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