On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 03:44:09PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote: > Debian stable contains xpdf-reader Version: 1.00-3 and that is what I > have currently installed. I have just pulled down xpdf version 2.02 from > foolabs.com and compiled it. It works fine but I have not yet done 'make > install'. > > Whats the procedure in Debian with regards to the packaging system when > you install a more up to date version that isn't available in apt-get ? > I can just remove the existing xpdf-reader but are there other options?
See if you can get a backport of the unstable version. There's a versioned dependency (on libfreetype6) which will break an attempt to build it direct. Aaah, bugger it, just go to http://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/backports and pick up the debs from there. Impromptu backport. If it breaks, tell me all about it so I can have a good laugh, but don't expect support. All the other dependencies can be satisfied from stable with apt-get. No, I'm not going to do an apt-get repository for it. I won't be leaving the packages there permanently. Basically, installing things outside of the package management system into anywhere other than /usr/local will annoy the hell out of dpkg. It's best to keep everything within the packaging system, because that way you can track everything easily, and satisfy dependencies - and building debian packages is pretty simple. But you can always put stuff into /usr/local, and play with equivs and symlinks to satisfy dependencies if necessary. - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
