How to install a pacjage I compiled

[stan]

On Sat, Apr 04, 2020 at 03:26:43PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 04 April 2020 14:52:53 stan wrote:
> 
> > I cannot find instructions as to how to properly create a modified
> > Debian package for a package that has been migrated to the quilt build
> > process, so finally I just made the request change in debian/rules and
> > followed the build instructions from
> > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/build.en.html
> > This did result in the creation of a package
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  843396 Apr  4 14:08
> > openssl_1.1.1d-0+deb10u2_amd64.deb so, I did a dpkg -i of this
> > package, yet I still see
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 736776 Oct 12 15:56 /usr/bin/openssl
> 
> Have you looked in /usr/local/bin? Generally, locally built stuff gets 
> installed there, but its also not generally in the users $PATH, so 
> re-arranging the order of the $PATH is often all you need to do, 
> put /usr/local/bin as the first entry and it will find that copy by 
> default.

The reason I am trying to build it from the Debian sources, is that I want
it to replace the default binaries installed from the repositories. I could
just download it from github, and compile/install it if I wanted it in the
usr/local tree.


But in any case, there is nothing in /usr/local/bin

> 
> > I recognize that the kludge I used does not change the name of the
> > package, but should this not reinstall it using the newly compiled
> > package?
> >
> >
> > I would really appreciate some help here. I have been fighting this
> > for a couple of days now, and my frustration level is way high.
> >
> > The root problem is Cappy firmware on vendor equipment, but the person
> > I am doing this for has over 400 of these installed, and the vendor
> > appears to not care at all about creating firmware with modern ssl
> > support.
> >
> > Just so the world knows the vendor is Mikrotic. The person I am
> > working with thinks highly of them as you can tell from the quantity
> > he has installed . Myself, I think a vendor that cannot be trouble to
> > create firmware that supports modern standards, should get the rewards
> > they deserve.
> +100
> > --
> > "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety
> > deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> > 						-- Benjamin Franklin
> 
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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