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| i have installed libpcap-0.9.6 from source-tarball, then how can i
tell APT this information while it keep informing me that i have to
install libpcap-0.8 before "apt-get install tcpdump"?
any ideas?
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| SINNER 2007-05-23, 1:13 pm |
| * aXqd wrote in alt.os.linux.debian:
> i have installed libpcap-0.9.6 from source-tarball, then how can i
> tell APT this information while it keep informing me that i have to
> install libpcap-0.8 before "apt-get install tcpdump"?
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> any ideas?
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use checkinstall to install from source.
apt-get install checkinstall
then the build process becomes
../configure
make
checkinstall
It will get added to the apt database.
--
David
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| Linonut 2007-05-23, 7:14 pm |
| After takin' a swig o' grog, SINNER belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> * aXqd wrote in alt.os.linux.debian:
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> use checkinstall to install from source.
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> apt-get install checkinstall
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> then the build process becomes
> ./configure
> make
> checkinstall
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> It will get added to the apt database.
Thanks for the lead! Hadn't heard about it. I'd been marking the
packages as manually installed (in aptitude).
--
Real programmers don't use Pascal.
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