nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - compile openssh and install to /usr/local/openssh (what i do) > > i prefer having apps in their own directory so i can just rm -rf > them when i want to remove them instead of hunting them down in 10 > different places.
If you'd like to easily have links to it in /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/man/man1 etc, have a look a package 'stow'. I install all my locally compiled software in directories under /usr/local/stow and have stow make the links needed. $ apt-cache show stow Package: stow Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 284 Maintainer: Guillaume Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 1.3.2-14 Depends: perl Suggests: doc-base Filename: pool/main/s/stow/stow_1.3.2-14_all.deb Size: 58126 MD5sum: cee7ec17bd3eef39060823ebaecea93f Description: Organiser for /usr/local/ hierarchy GNU Stow helps the system administrator organise files under /usr/local/ by allowing each piece of software to be installed in its own tree under /usr/local/stow/, and then using symlinks to create the illusion that all the software is installed in the same place. Suonpää...
