Le 31.01.2013 13:15, Muhammad Yousuf Khan a écrit :
Thanks all , thanks for the detailed answer but do you think compilingis a good solution to go-with, except installing the package from repository. i have heard that people always suggest to install packages from repository not by compiling. i know repo should containold release but stable one however, for more option and newer releasesone should need to compile it from source. but my question is, what pros do normally ?
I do not know what "pro" (I guess you are speaking about pro administrators, which I am not) do normally, but I can say that installing packages is safer and easier:
_ easier to remove _ easier to maintain _ tried by other (at least, by people who made them) _ they can be signed_ less dependencies (no need to install all *-dev packages of their dependencies, and their own dependencies, same for makefile generators: someone has spoken about ./configure, but there is also cmake, qmake, scons, and many other)
Generally speaking, I think using distro's packages is ideal. Then, if you think they are too old, try to install developers' packages. If they does not exists, compile the software.