On 16-Mar-99 Shaun Lipscombe wrote: > > I really really want to install Gnome, but the only reason I haven't > done so yet is because I cannot decide whether to install by source, > or by .deb. Normally I wouldn't worry about this, as I used to use > another distribution (name not mentioned to protect the guilty) and so > I had no choice. I recently installed debian and it is *very* good. > The dselect program confused me at first, but now I am very familiar > with it, and have changed my opinion regarding package management. > Arghhh!!! what shall I do?? > > Any opinions are welcome :) >
How about the best of both worlds, download the orig.tar.gz, the dsc and the diff.gz files and make your own packages. dpkg-source -x packagefoo.dsc cd into the created directory debian/rules binary Then you can install the debs like you had downloaded them.