At Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:44:09 +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'.
> In this case xpdf is not needed for anything i.e. nothing depends on it > so it's easy to remove. > If there were things that needed a pdf viewer that would be more > troublesome. Certainly I gather doing an install over the top of an > existing package would confuse the packaging system. (In this case) I would just install xpdf from upstream source into /usr/local/ and remove the xpdf-reader package. If you found something that depended on xpdf-reader, you could just install it again and have both versions (the old .deb and the new /usr/local version) simultaneously installed - provided you put /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin in $PATH everything should just work. /usr/local exists for a reason, not everything has to be done through packages ;) -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
