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On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 07:27:42PM -0500, Michael C. Toren wrote: > I do this as well, however one slight change is that afterwards I symlink > the binaries from /usr/local/bin and the man pages from /usr/local/man, > etc, so that no modifications to the $PATH are necessary. what i typically do is: apt-get install stow ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/programname-version make make install cd /usr/local/stow stow programname-version for those not familiar with stow, it's like a depot that doesn't suck. for those not familiar with either of these, it takes everything in /usr/local/stow/foo/bin and symlinks it to /usr/local/bin for you, etc, etc. makes managing compiled from source software super easy. sean
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