On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Daniel Elenius wrote: > Is it possible when installing a debian package with: > > dpkg-source -x packagename.dsc > , followed by ./configure, make, make install,
The correct method is: dpkg-source -x packagename.dsc cd packagename.dsc debian/rules build debian/rules binary cd .. dpkg -i packagename.deb > to get dpkg/dselect to understand that the package has been installed, > so that I can later uninstall it with dpkg/dselect? If you do this, then yes. HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/