Re: Non-Debian Provided Packages

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

Miles Fidelman wrote:

>>   
> While I love apt for most things, I've installed lots of non-debian
> packages, using the basic configure; make; make install approach.  For
> many packages, that's the only way to get the latest version.  I've yet
> to get Sympa to work from its .deb, for example.
> 

when I have to do the make/isntall approach, I installed checkinstall.
That way, after the make, you run checkinstall, which installs it so apt
knows about it.. and makes it removeable by apt..

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