Re: debian

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.linux, in article
<4b0ck4Fv65jlU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, J.O. Aho wrote:

Moe Trin wrote:

Which works fine - but leaves the distribution's package manager non the
wiser.

Make your own package will solve the problem, for most package managers there
are howtos how to make your own package. If you know how to compile it won't
be difficult to make your own package with help of a template.

Actually, for rpm, you _don't_ compile. You build a spec file, and then
use rpm (rpm-build in later versions) to build and install the binary.
However, that is still a mess.

For RPM there is a nice little installer provided my Mandrivia that updates
the RPM database and install the files, not sure if there are such for deb.

or for other distributions that use rpm. The "howto" isn't the greatest
document ever written either.

-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 44071 Sep 12 2002 RPM-HOWTO

Old guy
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