Desktop Installs

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 17:33:05 UTC 2008


On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:59 AM, PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE
<macanas_ped at gva.es> wrote:
>
> I would like to see a single command for this in Debian/Ubunt (instead of
> type  "configure &&
> make && sudo make install" , type "make install source" and /or use a GUI
> for this, in a similar way to Gebi).

But there are various options you may want to do at each stage.  They
are three steps for good reason.

> Another problem is you have to reinstall when you update your kernel (why ?,
> there would be a  permanent solution for source installed packages).

Nope - you usually don't.  Only when building software that uses
kernel related stuff....  thus why you need to recompile when you
change kernels....

Brian




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