On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 7:21 PM, sibi kanagaraj <civil.si...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all , > > What is the difference between sudo apt-get install tesseract and > installing from source . > 10.Trying to find answer via search engine leads me here > http://askubuntu.com/questions/335684/installation-difference-between-from-source-and-apt-get > But I am not satisfied with the answer > > My questions are > 1.What is the difference between package installation and installing from > source ? > 2.Where can I find the files if I am doing a package installation ? > 3.Am I doing the entire process wrong ? 1 Normally distributions have the software packaged. By packaging we normally mean these Get source from original sources - normally called upstream. Compile them. While compile check for other software on which present one depends. Create some default configuration like location of log files, configuration files etc., Store the metadata about the software along with dependencies and some brief information. Put all of them into one or more deb file (rpm in case of rpm based distributions)
When you apt-get install, the package manager gets the dependent packages as well as this package, installs them and create default configuration wherever necessary. You can use dpkg -L package-name to get list of all files. By the way you can do apt-get install if you are root. sudo is not part of the command. Raman.P blog:http://ramanchennai.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
