Installing w/apt vs. Installing tar.gz in /home/mydir
All my network is running Debian except my workstation, which is running
Mepis. Overall it's worked okay, but every now and then I hit a glitch with
I don't think I'd have with pure Debian, since Mepis uses both testing and
unstable for sources. (Any comments or insight welcome, flames and religious
discussion unwelcome!)
Oh, and I might add that I'm finishing a project. When it's done, I plan on
backing up /home, wiping the drive, using 3 partitions and making one stable
and one unstable, so I can use pure Sid, but have a backup when needed (the
3rd partition would be /home). So for now, I only want thing to work for the
next month or two. I'm not anticipating upgrading many programs I install
now. (I *really* want to get off Mepis and mixed sources and go to straight
Debian!) So there's no need to tell me to change the system -- I intend to
anyway.
Right now I'm having trouble with Eclipse 3.1, which I installed through apt.
It's stopped working. I've tried apt-get remove --purge eclipse, then
re-installing, and it doesn't help.
I was thinking of installing Eclipse from eclipse.org. I just recently had a
problem upgrading Firefox through apt, so I downloaded and installed it
in /home/hal and I was going to do the same with Eclipse. I realized in both
cases I'm installing a program in /home/hal and not in the /usr directory
tree.
If I'm installing programs that are intended for one user in /home, what kind
of effects does that have on dependencies and other parts of the apt system?
if I install a program from a tarball, am I better off installing it in my
home dir than somewhere in /usr? If I do, does it "isolate" it from other
installs?
Any comments on this are welcome. I prefer apt, but I've had to install a few
programs like this and I am wondering about the overall effects.
Hal
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