A lot of thanks for your great advice!
I gave up of qmmp and /usr/local and I ve just succeed to install two versions of htop under the control of debian's package manager. There are two htops visible under synaptic: htop(1.0.1) and htop2 (1.0.3 which comes from sid)
You were right. It required to make changes like (htop -> htop2) in makefile.in and makefile.am in places where names of binaries, icons, and man pages were present.
Next I will try to do the same with qmmp.
Cheers!
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HowTo Build a Package from Source the Smart Way
Re: HowTo Build a Package from Source the Smart Way
hello, trying to install the backintime package i built, this is the error i get...
it's not reading the whole package, just the first part. idk if i did something wrong. thanks!'
edit: okay totally missed the part where it said python3-keyring is needed, i installed that and now backintime works. whew.
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casper@hp:~/mybuild$ sudo dpkg -i backintime-common_1.2.1-3_all.deb
(Reading database ... 183949 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack backintime-common_1.2.1-3_all.deb ...
Unpacking backintime-common (1.2.1-3) over (1.2.1-3) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of backintime-common:
backintime-common depends on python3-keyring; however:
Package python3-keyring is not installed.
dpkg: error processing package backintime-common (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
backintime-common
edit: okay totally missed the part where it said python3-keyring is needed, i installed that and now backintime works. whew.
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Re: HowTo Build a Package from Source the Smart Way
You can use apt instead of dpkg to install local .debs . It will download and install dependencies. From the directory containing the local .deb :
Not sure why you would build it when the same version is available in the repo anyway - https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=backintime
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apt install ./packagename
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Re: HowTo Build a Package from Source the Smart Way
thank you, that was simply to test building and installing a .deb file, something i've never done but someday will probably have to do. just a little test trial and error ^^