In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > dselect is great, but what do I do when there is no deb package for the > soft I want? I know of course how to install somethng from a tarball, my > question is just: where do I do it? Where do I put the package etc. and > make sure I am not messing up dpkg? Are there any conventions for that? > Is there any doc that explains that?
dpkg will not put any files underneatch /usr/local/, so you can install in there (this is usually the default, anyway) without worrying about stomping on dpkg, or vice-versa. -Mitch
