Package/Build-From-Source Management

[Frank McCormick]

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On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:51:44 +0200
Alan McKinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:

> 
> It has nothing to do with your packages. What he is saying is
> that if you install stuff yourself and put it in /usr/local
> (the recommended place for such things) then it doesn't
> interfere with the rest of the system.
> 


   Excuse me for jumping into this thread....but is this the
Ubuntu recommended procedure, putting non-Ubuntu packages
into /usr/local ? In the past I've used Checkinstall but put
stuff into /usr/bin , /usr/lib  etc etc.



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Cheers

Frank

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