<div>On 11/9/05, Stephen R Laniel <<a href="mailto:steve@laniels.org">steve@laniels.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:20:06PM -0600, Samuel Thurston, III wrote: > if i have an older version of a package installed from a .deb, should i > uninstall that before installing a new version from source? is it very > difficult to build my own debs from a generic tarball? Ordinarily you don't need to uninstall the one before installing the other. Compiled packages normally go into /usr/local/bin and so forth rather than in /usr/bin, so things don't normally collide. I think there can be problems</blockquote><div> I thought so but was generally unsure... i guess i could always consult the makefile ;) </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">As for the difficulty: most often it's not very difficult. You just have to do make && make install as root. </blockquote></div> I think you misunderstood ... I am trying to build a debian package from source so as to let package management take over... e.g. if a newer version hits the respositories than the one i've built, that it will be installed over it, and the old one removed. It seems like a complicated affair to build debian packages, but since i don't need maintainer information and such for my personal use, there must be a simple way?