@Syam sir: Thanks for the clear reply - it makes things a lot easier now. I
was already familiar with some of your suggestion, but others were plain
new to me. I had partially tried these ideas earlier when I tried a
Django/Apache/Python/Postgresql server stack. But I still had to ask since
th
@syam.
Very good tips.. Its useful to others too
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Visakh wrote:
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> That is, I want to be able to test the software without touching the
> default installation (install to a non standard location).
Most 'make' based packages will have a 'prefix' argument to the 'configure'
script to install to a custom direct
Hi,
I want to test a bunch of bleeding edge software (scientific) directly
from source. However, I am facing the usual issues related to installing
from source. The dependencies provided by the distro's package manager are
always too old. And, many of the build scripts don't provide an option