How to install a pacjage I compiled

[Tom H]

On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 1:51 PM stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 04, 2020 at 03:26:43PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> The reason I am trying to build it from the Debian sources, is that
> I want it to replace the default binaries installed from the
> repositories. I could just download it from github, and compile/
> install it if I wanted it in the usr/local tree.

Did you increment the package version?


> But in any case, there is nothing in /usr/local/bin

There wouldn't be if you used the Ubuntu source setup with new upstream sources.