‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Wednesday, September 16, 2020 12:36 PM, William Morder via tde-users <ml-migration-agent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wednesday 16 September 2020 12:22:05 deloptes via tde-users wrote: > > > J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote: > > > > > Correct. But for some reason I can't imagine, I linked the wrong thing. > > > :-) > > > > I missed this thread, but why don't you build a simple debian package? > > If it were to be installed in custom directory, I found out that a kind of > > isolation is the best approach. > > I use /opt/custom and compile/install in /opt/custom/<application> > > Then I add to the global or users PATH /opt/custom/<application>/bin > > I also found out that creating /opt/custom/<application> and chown to a > > users and compiling/installing with that user prevents from broken > > installers. The method never failed, although in recent years I have > > reduced the applications there to absolute minimum in favor to debian > > packages. > > I was thinking of doing this myself, but I obviously am not really a tech > person, compared to most of the other folks on this mailing list. > > Funny thing, though, people out in the "real world" (you know the place) often > eem to imagine that I am a blackhat cracker who can bring down the government > with a few command-line tricks. (I have no such illusions.) > > Once I get the steps for installation from source packages in order, I wanted > to create deb packages, at least for myself. It would be nice to get them > hosted somewhere, as I dislike having to use source packages -- although I > know some geeky friends who swear by this method over using deb, rpm, yum or > other packages. > > So, if I follow what you say, installing to /opt/custom/ instead > of /usr/lib/ ? > > Bill > > tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > what I know today. "opt" is used by third party applications. my "opt' contains: master-pdf-editor-5/, openoffice4/ , trinity/. . "/usr/local" is used by me to manage my system. there is a "usr/local/src". "usr/local/bin", "/usr/local/bin" is already in PATH. -- gregm ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
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