Tom, if you throw things in /usr/local, apt (as well as dpkg, dselect, etc..) promise to leave those things alone. The gnome configure script probably supports --prefix=/usr/local -- that doesn't mean it will be seamless, but it shouldn't be too bad. :)
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 07:57:38AM -0400, Thomas Epperly wrote: > I am relatively new to Linux, so please forgive me if I am asking a stupid > question. I am wondering how Debian's installation system (apt) handles > situations where you go back and forth from installation from a binary .deb > distribution and installing from a tarball source distribution. > > I have a particular situation in mind. I've got various packages installed > for GNOME via apt from network sources. Now I would like to compile GNOME > 1.0.40 beta, so I can help test the beta. GNOME 1.0.40 is currently only > available as tar files of source code. If I compile and install from a tar > distribution and overwrite the apt installation, does apt's database of > installed software become invalid (i.e. apt thinks version x.y.z is > installed when in reality version x.y.z+34 is installed? If I later want to > install GNOME from a distribution of .deb files, am I looking for trouble? > > In general, is there a safe way to install version x.y from .deb followed by > x.y+1 from source distribution followed by x.y+2 from .deb followed by ...? > Does apt automagically do the right thing, or do I as administrator have to > do the right thing? > > Tom > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
