On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 11:01:54AM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, G. Kaplan wrote: > > > 3. a primary module i.e. .xyz.tar.gz > Generally it's safest to untar, compile and install these with > prefix=/usr/local ... debian packages won't touch anything under > /usr/local, so nothing will get overwritten or anything. In general, a > lot of stuff you compile from tarballs yourself has a default install > under /usr/local.
With respect to 1. and 2., one has to be careful here. Native Debian packages don't touch /usr/local, so it is safe to put local add ons there (and this is the intended and formal correct place). BUT inofficial *.deb files and *.rpm files converted with alien may very well contain /usr/local files, please check this with the "--contents" option prior installation. I believe you can even convert tar files to deb files. This is intereting if you want to make /usr/local managed by dpkg. Thank you, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null