playing with ubuntu first time

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 06:07:26PM -0500, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
> Installing from source gives me more freedom. Isn't Linux about freedom? 
> That's why I use it. I want to have a possibility to test various extra 
> optional packages/configurations and installing by apt-get or any other 
> similar toy does not give me that.

The sensible methods for doing this are:

Get the apt package source, change the build options, and add a .1 to
the version number (dch -i), then build the package (dpkb-buildpackage
-us -uc -b).  Then you can install it with dpkg -i whatever.deb, and
perhaps put it on hold (echo "packagename hold"|dpkg --set-selections)
to make sure it doesn't upgrade without your knowledge.

or..

Create an equivs package to fullfill the dependancies so that everything
else knows that the package really is installed.

Fighting the package system is just dumb and asking for trouble.  If you
don't want to take advantage of a package system to solve problems, you
may be better off using something that doesn't even have one.

I highly recommend the first option.  It has served me well for many
years now, and avoided exactly the kind of problem you are having.
Building things problem and installing them problerly is rather nice.
It means you know exactly where things are and everything on the system
is able to be managed the same way.

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