Re: Install Debian for desktop
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:38:20AM +0200, Josef Oswald wrote:
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
> > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 02:33:21PM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote:
> >> If I install software in /usr/local, as I understand it, I bypass Debian
> >> package management.
> >
> > That's right.
>
> Now where should one then install stuff one gets from sources?
> So far everything I put into /usr/local/lib
/usr/local somewhere. /usr/local/lib is really only appropriate for
libraries, but it's up to you. You might like to try stow, where you put
each package in its own directory in /usr/local/stow and it maintains a
symlink farm for you; this allows for easy uninstallation.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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