How do I install Debian packages which are not in the repository

[audriusb at homelan.lt]

Quoting Rainer Gutkas <Rainer.Gutkas at kstp.at>:

Download the source package, build a binary and install it:
   # apt-get -b source packagename
   # dpkg -i file.deb
Second:
   1) download tarBall from home page, unpack, compile and install it:
          $ tar -xzvf package.tgz
          $ cd package_directory
          $ ./configure
          $ make
          $ sudo make install
    2) use  equivs to trick into APT system.
Read details in
 http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.en.html#contents

Be patient: you'll meat many problems in both ways.


Gediminas Bukauskas

> Hi there!
>
> I tried to install xvidcap on my computer. So it isn't in the repository.
> What I tried is adding the source to sources.list ... just gave errors
> with synaptic
> Download the deb and try to teach synaptic to open it, but couldn't
> figure out how this works.
> I know from sarge and kpackage that it works to open debs which are not
> in the archive and install them....
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> THX, Rainer
>