On Sat, Nov 01, 2003, at 19:17 -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: <...> > > I am also very new to Debian, but I'm not sure I understand why you > > didn't do it this way: > > > > apt-get update > > apt-get install gaim > > One reason. The debian maintainer has a weird numbering scheme. Gaim > is at 0.7.1, not 1:0.6.4. The version in testing is 0.6.4. Currently, gaim is at 0.7.2 and Robert McQueen just uploaded it to unstable today/yesterday. You can still obtain gaim in the testing distribution, it's just an older version. You might also be able to find a backport someplace. > Best to grab from source. > > And I grabbed source directly from gaim.soureforge.com. I by passed > aptitude all together. > > I them used checkinstall to created a deb file once I compiled it. There's no real need to do that, unless you want it managed by dpkg explicitly. If you compile gaim, you can just place it in /usr/local (which is done by default) and run 'make uninstall' from the source tree when you want to uninstall it. -- scott c. linnenbringer <sl@panix.com> http://www.panix.com/~sl <sl@moslug.org>
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