How to install a pacjage I compiled

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 04 April 2020 14:52:53 stan wrote:

> I cannot find instructions as to how to properly create a modified
> Debian package for a package that has been migrated to the quilt build
> process, so finally I just made the request change in debian/rules and
> followed the build instructions from
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/build.en.html
> This did result in the creation of a package
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  843396 Apr  4 14:08
> openssl_1.1.1d-0+deb10u2_amd64.deb so, I did a dpkg -i of this
> package, yet I still see
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 736776 Oct 12 15:56 /usr/bin/openssl

Have you looked in /usr/local/bin? Generally, locally built stuff gets 
installed there, but its also not generally in the users $PATH, so 
re-arranging the order of the $PATH is often all you need to do, 
put /usr/local/bin as the first entry and it will find that copy by 
default.

> I recognize that the kludge I used does not change the name of the
> package, but should this not reinstall it using the newly compiled
> package?
>
>
> I would really appreciate some help here. I have been fighting this
> for a couple of days now, and my frustration level is way high.
>
> The root problem is Cappy firmware on vendor equipment, but the person
> I am doing this for has over 400 of these installed, and the vendor
> appears to not care at all about creating firmware with modern ssl
> support.
>
> Just so the world knows the vendor is Mikrotic. The person I am
> working with thinks highly of them as you can tell from the quantity
> he has installed . Myself, I think a vendor that cannot be trouble to
> create firmware that supports modern standards, should get the rewards
> they deserve.
+100
> --
> "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety
> deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> 						-- Benjamin Franklin


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