Re: Installing old tarballs on a new Debian system
From: cga (cga2001_at_softhome.net)
Date: 12/31/04
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To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:35:54 -0500
Jim McCloskey wrote:
> cga <cga2001@softhome.net> wrote:
>
> |> I am currently switching to Debian and I have a bunch of utilities,
> |> wmaker applets, etc.. in source format that I would like to reinstall
> |> on the new system. Unfortunately a number of these are not available
> |> as .deb's.
> |>
> |> As I see it I can either copy them to /usr/local/tarballs & do the
> |> usual ./configure/make/ make-install dance or try to create .deb's
> |> myself. This last approach being probably the more dangerous.
>
> I'm not exactly sure what you mean by `clean' in this context, but
> there are certain applications that I have routinely compiled and
> installed in /usr/local/ and it hasn't led to any kind of problem so
> far. Debian just ignores that part of the directory tree so things
> mostly just live in there happily ever after, un-molested by the
> package-management system.
>
> Maybe there'd be some advantage to creating personalized debs, but I
> can't at least for the moment think what it might be.
>
> I suppose there is some risk that you would purge some library needed
> by an application in /usr/local/, if you use a tool like deborphan or
> aptitude to keep your system spare. Since the package management
> system won't know that something in /usr/local/ needs the library, it
> might present you with the opportunity/temptation to purge it (in the
> case that none of your installed debs depends on it). All I know,
> though, is that, even though I'm fond of deborphan and use it
> regularly, this hasn't been a problem for me in the years that I've
> been hand-compiling certain things in the /usr/local/ space,
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jim
>
>
-- Thanks very much to both for quick detailed replies. I have used checkistall with rpm's so I knew that you could use it to generate debian packages. Never had problems with it but when I couldn't find a deb package for it in the sarge repository I thought it might not be quite ready or reliable enough to use it on a Debian system.. I think I'll give it a shot on my new system. I wasn't too happy with the /usr/local solution on my previous system because I tend to install programs, play with them for a while and in many cases just remove them from the system to reclaim the space. Without something like rpm or dpkg it's a bit more difficult. Thanks again for your comments. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
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