On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 05:34:53PM +0000, Justin B Rye wrote: > QBA wrote: > > [...] > > And there is also a second reason to install tarballs - > > some cool programs are available only in this format (e.g. w3mir). > > And here's my question: is it a bad idea to install tarballz on Debian? > > Thanks for help, > > [...] You cah install them in /usr/local just like you (should) do with redhat, or you can make .debs yourself from source, read devel docs like maintainer guide on debian.org for more info. > > Wait! If you're looking for "WWW-wo-Miru", the .deb is called w3m, > so you needn't resort to tarballs for that one. > > See "http://packages.debian.org/stable/text/w3m.html";. w3mir != w3m w3mir is packaged too iirc, look at packages.debian.org for more info
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