<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/2/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Frank McCormick</b> <<a href="mailto:fmccormick@videotron.ca">fmccormick@videotron.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 06:48:52 -0600<br>Tommy Trussell <<a href="mailto:tommy.trussell@gmail.com">tommy.trussell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> You could learn how to make your own .deb package from the tarball, then you
<br>> can install it using dpkg -i package_name.deb<br>
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</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>Can someone point me to instructions on how to make a .deb package from<br>the tarball ? If not I'll have a look at the Wiki.
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there may be some really good info on the wiki but a Google search turns up a lot. Here's an introductory one:<br>
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<a href="http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8047723203.html">http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8047723203.html</a><br>
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