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Re: few debian questions!!



On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 08:53:21PM +0100, mehdi wrote:
> 1- Where does the third party software (such as GNU softwares) are
> installed in debian systems ? Is it /usr/local or /usr/?

/usr/local

> 
> 2- Where can I found pre-compiled software for debian it seems all the
> software comes with the disks are very old one? I am looking for MYSQL. and
> latest gcc and perl and some other GNU stuff.

Run SID (unstable), put something like this in sources.list:

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib

> 
> 3- Is there any information on how I can package binary on debian? I used
> to build depot for HPUX.

install dh-make



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