Re: Updating without Apt
- From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:51:56 -0700
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 06:27:23PM -0700, Andrew Gray wrote:
My name is Andrew, and I use Debian Lenny on an x86 machine.
[...]
The software in question is emacs22. Currently I have it compiled in my
home directory at ~/source/emacs/, where I run it directly out of the
src directory. I dare not "make install", or my apt install will be
permanently harmed and/or it won't work and I will be faced with a
crippled, non-running version of emacs on my system.
[...]
Is there anything I can do to ensure that if I did a make install it
wouldn't affect my current install or something like that?
while I've not built emacs from source before, the SOP for these sorts
of things is to install local packages into /usr/local/
generally there are ./configure options you can set to change the
install directory. Debian packages will not touch /usr/local, so
you'll be good to go. YOu could even statically link program so that
you won't have to worry about libraries upgrading underneath you.
hth.
A
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