How to replace the deb package with my own?

[maxl]

Constantine Evans wrote:
>>
>> How can I replace the deb package with my own and still keeping Update
>> Manager functionality?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
> 
> 
> Are you installing 1.4.4 from source? If you are, you have a few

Yes, with Idea support.

> options. You could use equivs, a tool which allows you to create fake,
> placeholder packages. checkinstall might also work. This might break
> programs from the main repository that use gnupg, however, since they
> may be depending upon a specific version.

I tried to remove 1.4.2 and install 1.4.4 but didn't work. Update Manager
and Synaptic have dependencies with the deb version.

> 
> Alternatively, you could install GnuPG  1.4.4 in /usr/local, which is
> probably the default of the source package anyway. In that way, you will
> have both 1.4.2 and 1.4.4 installed. This is most likely the best option.
> 
Thank you for your advise.
Indeed that's what I did after a little mess, but now everything is fine,
see below.
The only annoy is Update Manager trying to "update" gnupg...

> If you are not installing from source, it would be very helpful if you
> could tell us what you are using to install 1.4.4.
> 
user at ubuntu:~$ gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.4
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB

Thanks,
maxl