Hey all, this is a relatively newbish question.
I'm comfortable with downloading and installing the source code to a program
that I want to use, compile it, and use "make install" to install. That is the
easy part.
Here's the hard part for me. What are the best practices for doing so?
-Is there
The only real edge case is when for some reason the package you want to use
is extremely outdated or borked. e.g: I use FreeSwitch on CentOS, but the
package manager's plugins don't work correctly unless I build from source
and teak some parameters for my liking.
Is there a specific subfolder I sh
On 2018-01-24 16:59, Andrew McRobb wrote:
Is there a specific subfolder I should be installing compiled
programs
to? IE /opt instead of /usr/bin ?
Things that are compiled from source are usually put in /usr/local ,
because your distro's package manager will leave that directory and its
subd
You might want to try checkinstall, which solves a lot of the problems of
uninstalling, etc:
https://wiki.debian.org/CheckInstall
On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Matthew Crews
wrote:
> Hey all, this is a relatively newbish question.
>
> I'm comfortable with downloading and installing the sourc
