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Re: building from source advice



On Thursday 05 February 2004 8:43 pm, Rob Weir wrote:
> If you build things from source, dpkg won't be aware of them, therefore
> apt will try to install them if something depends on them.

Hrm apt-get install checkinstall. It won't track dependencies but will make
a .deb, .rpm or slackTGZ from the source use it instead of make install.

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