downloading and compiling from source

[Jamie Griffin]

Thanks for this, appreciate it. 

Jamie

On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 14:34 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 14:15 +0100, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > Then make a source directory in your home directory where 
> > you unpack the sources you want to compile and install. For many programs 
> > the procedure is this sequence of commands:
> > 
> > configure
> > make
> > sudo make install
> 
> I think it should be added that ./configure --help gives a list of
> compile time options that can be passed, since changing the options
> often is a reason to self-compile in the first place.
> 
> However, if it's just to change options I'd recommend to not build from
> vanilla sources but to just rebuild the Ubuntu package. A guide is here:
> http://julien.danjou.info/article-apt-build.html (to the OP: don't use
> the Debian apt-src repo that is given in the article, but
> select Software Sources from the menu System/Administration, and enable
> the source code repos there.)
> 
> > you should install the package "checkinstall" 
> > and change the command sequence above:
> > 
> > configure
> > make
> > sudo checkinstall make install
> 
> Definitely, otherwise deinstallation can become very messy.
> 
>