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Re: Installing from source



Marc-André Laverdière <ma_laver@ciise.concordia.ca> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm working on a case study and modifying the source of the stable
> version. I'd like to test it, but it looks like that the makefile
> doesn't have a 'make install' option.
>
> There is only an install script, but no driver program to supply it
> arguments. I don't see anything in the docs directory that helps, so
> I'm getting a bit confused. What am I missing? How do I deploy this on
> my ubuntu virtual machine?
>
> Regards,

You never install from source, NEVER. You can build debs from source
and install those.

debuild
dpkg -i ../dpkg*deb

MfG
        Goswin



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