It's safe to build apps by our self, if we avoid 'make install'. 'Make love, but make install' (a quote of somebody who wish to be anonymous).
On several Linux running 'checkinstall' will build a package. For Ubuntu it's possible to use 'dpkg-buildpackage' additionally to 'checkinstall' to build a package, but not for every app. Sometimes, e.g. for JACK, this will build just one package, while for the distro it's separated to several packages, if so, building dummy packages will avoid trouble. On Ubuntu it's possible to build dummy packages by running 'equivs'. A package easily can be removed, resp. restored by the original package(s). Stuff that's installed by 'make install' not all the times can be removed easily. There's an option called 'make uninstall', but perhaps 'make install' has overwritten some dependencies before or added a new version without overwriting an old version. E.g. some Linux differ regarding to directories, taking care about 'ldconfig' and /lib, /lib64 etc. shouldn't be an issue, at least when using a search engine or asking the community. It's possible to build a kernel by several ways, for Ubuntu they usually will build packages. A changing done by a package that break our Linux can be easily repaired, as long, ass the original packages are available. So don't fear to compile apps and kernels yourself, but just install self build stuff by packages. If there should be an issue, you most of the times can't install a package without the force option, hence nothing dangerous can happen. If you can't install a package without the force option, it will inform you about the reason. Perhaps the reason isn't important and you anyway can install by using the force option and as the case may be, reinstall a broken package/dependency. -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
