On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 05:12:24PM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote Thursday, February 06, 2003 1:36 PM > > > Now that I finally have a working Debian system, I want to > > know what will > > happen if I install non-Debian programs. I know this will > > vary from case to > > case, but I'm wondering what the general impact is if I have > > to install > > programs that I can't do from apt. > > > > Wait one second here! I'm seeing a lot of advice. > > 1. There is definitely something to be said for installing such packages > under a fake user account. /home/nondebian. This can almost always be done > just by passing PREFIX=/home/nondebian to the ./configure script for the > package. Or just use GNU stow, from the 'stow' package. > 2. BUT, if you turn each program you want to install into a .deb, you _can_ > user dpkg to install and remove it... Sure. > 3. HOWEVER, you can be totally on top of things, add this to your > /etc/apt/sources.list > > deb http://your.company.here.com/path/to/debian/archive unstable main > #I think you want it to say unstable, maybe because then, if the program > enters stable, it won't get overwritten?? > > Making your own little debian archive WILL ALLOW YOU to use apt and dselect > and dpkg, just like you would normally. > > Plus, you'll feel cooler than I do, because you have accomplished something > I have not. > > Then again, I haven't tried, I just know I want to :) Hehehe, for sure :0 -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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