manual compilation and package management

[Toby Kelsey]

Imre Tuske wrote:

> Maybe it's a stupid question, but I don't know much but the basics
> about package management, and just thinking of a way of installing
> "hand-compiled" stuff in a way that works together with packages.

Maybe one of these documents would be useful?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CreateDebPackageHowto
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CreatePackageFromSourcePackage
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HowToBuildDebianPackagesFromScratch
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Creating_an_Ubuntu_%2edeb_Package

HTH,
Toby