On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 09:47:32AM +1000, Sisyphus wrote:
> by running 'perl Makefile.PL', 'make test' and 'make install' (and running 
> 'make realclean' if you're at a stage where you need to start over from 
> scratch again.) Running 'make install' (or 'sudo make install' if that's 
> applicable) will always overwrite any existing installation.

overwriting files in the /usr hierarchy is not a good idea, as the package
manager (in the debian/ubuntu case dpkg+apt) gets confused and may again
overwrite your files if somebody uploads a new version of the package the
files belong to.
Locally built packages should always install to /usr/local.


-- 
c u
henning

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