On 26 January 2012 04:28, Winston Weinert <winst...@lavabit.com> wrote: > This may seem blatantly obvious and unspoken -- however: it is OK to install > dwm to /usr/local or $HOME on the mentioned distros. It is a lot of work to > roll packages per-setup and per-user. It also seems logical to put personal > binaries in a personal directory.
Nowadays with inexpensive VPS and what not, your server is probably not a multi-user system. So there is little point in bending over backwards installing binaries in $HOME in my opinion. > It seems the real question here is "How do I use Debian's package management > facilities to install XYZ?". Suckless frowns upon this kind of question. > Please see to using Debian docs next time! You'll learn like I have, that Debian packages aren't all that. /usr/local/bin is fine and manageable. Especially since the binaries can have config.h tweaks. ls -1 /usr/local/bin/ ansi2html dmenu dmenu_run dwm markdown st stest sxiv xosview
