Hi Geoff and all, many thanks for your reply. Yes, I have also been a little lazy in dealing with the different configure options and I have usually just run ./configure and I've been fine. I have seen examples with a lot more parameters. One thing that I did was to edit /etc/apt/list.sources and added the stable version to Debian as well to obtain the glibstdc++2.10 package to run Ttsynth. I used apt-cache to search for the package. If I do not find a dependency I usually use Google. Any other tip? All the best and thanks, Christian On 2008-02-20 at 17:51 Geoff Shang wrote: >Hi, > >A friend of mine is fond of saying the following: > >The nice thing about standards is that there's so many to choose from. > >The issue here is that different systems have different defaults. Debian >packages have a standard place for putting things. Tarballs usually >install to /usr/local but not always. Other systems or distributions will >install to other places. I don't have anyhting in /opt on my system for >example but some do. > >You basically have two options. First, you can put everything in the same >place so you know where to find it, though you can run into trouble if you >mix packages with source tarballs. The second is to let things go where >they go and live with it. > >I usually do the latter, partly because I prefer to install tarballs to >/usr/local and let packages install to other places, and partly because >I'm >too lazy to bother with configure options, etc. > >At the end of the day, as long as the things that need to find your files >can find them, you'll be OK. > >Geoff. > >_______________________________________________ >Blinux-list mailing list >Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list