Re: How to "make install" apt?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2009-09-01 10:53, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,

You're the one running as a user on a RedHat system, right?

> I downloaded http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/a/apt/apt_0.6.46.4-0.1+etch1.tar.gz
> from the following webpage
>
> http://packages.debian.org/etch/apt
>
> I then run the following two commands. But I don't find the 'install'
> option in the Makefile. Can somebody let me know what command I should
> run to install apt?
>
> configure --prefix=somedir
> make

Just as SRPM packages are designed to be manipulated by rpm, deb 
packages are designed to be manipulated by apt* commands.  In this 
case, I don't think that deb packages are designed to allow "non 
system" targets.

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