How to install a pacjage I compiled

[stan]

On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 05:11:45PM +0200, Tom H wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 2:39 PM stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> You add an entry to "debian/changelog".
> 
> You can edit it directly, or, if you have devscripts installed, you
> can run "dch" in the "debian/" directory.
> 
> 

Thaks, that may be the trick. I will try it.
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