Hi, On 2 April 2012 22:14, Alfred M. Szmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > $ apt-get build-dep $PROGRAM; > $ apt-get source $PROGRAM; > $ cd PROGRAM/; > $ ./configure; > $ make; > $ make install; > > What is not easy about this? :-) > > That will not build with the same switches as the original package was > built,
This will: $ apt-get source -b $PROGRAM > and it will install in /usr/local which does not work for all packages. I assert that would be a problem with those package, not with APT. -- Cheers Dave
