[techtalk] The general case of installing a non-Debian thingie on a Debiansystem
The specific case, Gnapster 1.3.11. I've never installed a non-Debian anything and I'm paranoid. Especially since I have 1.3.10 installed and I can envision scenarios where I lose what functionality I've achieved. Can someone point me to a good URL/HOWTO/whatever about how to do this sort of thing? -- J-Mag Guthrie/"\ "Even Microsoft's product managers privately Brokersys\ / concede that this new version, with its 281-580-3358 (voice) Xwarm-and-fuzzy nickname of Windows Me, 281-586-0628 (fax) / \ is not for everyone." -- Dwight Silverman ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] The general case of installing a non-Debian thingie on a Debian system
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:38:23AM -0500, J-Mag Guthrie wrote: > The specific case, Gnapster 1.3.11. > > I've never installed a non-Debian anything and I'm paranoid. > Especially since I have 1.3.10 installed and I can envision > scenarios where I lose what functionality I've achieved. > > Can someone point me to a good URL/HOWTO/whatever about how to do > this sort of thing? > If you are only interested in using a more up to date version of Gnapster, I suggest installing the helixcode version of gnapster which is has 1.3.12 packaged. Or you could use 1.3.11 packaged in Woody. You can simply install the precompiled packages which means you will need to install additional packages (easily handled by apt). Or you can get the source package and build the package yourself (which apt can do as well). Running the helixcode version will probably be the easiest. -- Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | everyone talks of it, but few have seent it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-Maxime De La Rochefoucauld ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] The general case of installing a non-Debian thingie on a Debian system
Excerpts from linuxchix: 19-Sep-100 [techtalk] The general case.. by J-Mag Guthrie@brokersys. > I've never installed a non-Debian anything and I'm paranoid. Don't be too worried. If it's not a core component of the system, and if there isn't really anything that depends on it[1], you should be fine, as long as you don't install over your old stuff, which probably won't happen (when compiling from source, stuff is usually installed in /usr/local by default, which debian packages are not allowed to do). If you do this, make sure /usr/local/bin is in your path, and before the other stuff, so that your shell will run your new one instead of the debian one. The 'which' and 'where' commands (in (t)csh, don't know about bash) are useful for determining if this is the case. Of course, you can always remove the debian package before installing your new one, if you want to be completely sure. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
