On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:03:43AM -0400, User zos wrote: > Thanks for the tip though, I guess if I read through the man files again I > might have picked that up, but I've found that I haven't had to use the > advanced features of apt much, and really...I prefer tarballs anyways for > some masochistic reason. :)
You should try the dpkg manpage also. BTW, there is nothing against compiling and installing programs into your own home directory. Just do "./configure --prefix=~" before you build and install the software. Cheers, Joost
