On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 04:47:16PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > yag wrote: > > Hi > > > > I would like to know whether installing from source rather than from the > > repositories has any advantage in terms of performance or something > > else. I didn't notice any difference when comparing mplayer's behavior, > > although compiling it myself gave me the choice of fine tuning the > > available codecs as well as installing the very latest version, for > > instance. > > In my experience, it is usually a lot simpler to install the Debian > packages. They have already been formatted to work properly with > Debian, some of which are tweaked a bit for better compatibility. > > Sure, you can compile things yourself, but then you have to do all the > dependency checking yourself (although most software comes with a > configure script to do this, they don't install the missing > dependencies) so sometimes you have to STFW for the right files and may > need to compile those first. apt-get build-dep <package> A
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