How to install a pacjage I compiled

[stan]

On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 02:14:45PM +0200, Tom H wrote:
> 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?

No, How do I do that?
> 
> 
> > 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.

Yes, that is what I expect. I am trying to build a version of this package
to replace the upstream version.

I suspect you have identified the issue as the lack of incrementing the
version number. Perhaps if I can understand how to do this, all will be
well.

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