hi thanks for the tips i'll look into this
the thing about me and Perl is that I need the source laying around and I need to be able to recompile it at will for the things i'm trying with it so I need to know what i need in order to get it working with debian whenever i recompile, or...i guess i c ould just put a development perl on the machine and simply use that but that just adds more complexity i did manage to read some information that helped me put a Vim package together that I wanted from source, but does that mean that I now have to keep the other vim's on hold? that's cool, I don't think it will cause any problems, unlike the perl one, how are other Perl developers with Debian handling this? On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > Aaron F Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >i'm very new to debian > > > >though i've been doing linux for a few years now > > > >i'm making my way through all the documentation > > > >but there is something i'm not seeing right now (meaning i am not sure > >where this is in the docs i'm reading so if you know, let me know) > > > >but i want to be able to tell dselect/apt-get (which are just awesome by > >the way) that i have perl installed, but i want it to be the perl that > >i've compiled > > Try the equivs package. Beware that Perl is rather complex and deeply > embedded in the Debian distribution, so it may not be easy to get the > dependencies right. > > >i'm using unstable packages for potato 2.2r3 > > No such thing. :) unstable is a different distribution. > > By the way, the Debian Perl maintainer is working on 5.6.1 at the > moment, so you might find it easier to wait for a week or two until > that's done. > > >of course i missed the Dpkg and Debian modules in my new directories > >like an idiot and had to manually copy them over there > > What, in /usr/share/perl5? <scared> You really need to get the > configuration of your home-built Perl at least similar to the one > shipped with Debian, otherwise you can't expect packages to work. > Looking at the .diff.gz in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/perl/ > might be a good start. </scared> > > >I know there is a way to get the source distributions, but i'm very > >fuzzy on that right now > > Put deb-src lines in /etc/apt/sources.list similar to the existing deb > lines and run 'apt-get source <packagename>'. > > Cheers, > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
