Sunnz
October 20th, 2007, 07:59 PM
Not sure if this is the best forum to ask... but anyway:
If I have recompiled a program that I have already installed, what should I do? Should I uninstall the one I installed via Synaptic and install my own copy? Or is there a way to install over it?
I have already installed ffmpeg, and mplayer which I think depends on ffmpeg... now, I have recompiled my own copy of ffmpeg but have not installed it on my system. If I just uninstall ffmpeg via Synaptic would that break mplayer?
(I wanted to recompile it because of various reasons (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ffmpeg/+bug/6366), I downloaded the source of ffmpeg (https://code.launchpad.net/~siretart/ffmpeg/ubuntu) and have recompiled in my home folder. I have been using it to transcode files and such, but I am just running from my home folder at this time, and haven't yet install it to my system (make install?))
Or should I make a .deb out of my own compiled version and dpkg_add that? I've never made a .deb package before, but I am used to compile things myself.
Yea, kind of confused...
If I have recompiled a program that I have already installed, what should I do? Should I uninstall the one I installed via Synaptic and install my own copy? Or is there a way to install over it?
I have already installed ffmpeg, and mplayer which I think depends on ffmpeg... now, I have recompiled my own copy of ffmpeg but have not installed it on my system. If I just uninstall ffmpeg via Synaptic would that break mplayer?
(I wanted to recompile it because of various reasons (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ffmpeg/+bug/6366), I downloaded the source of ffmpeg (https://code.launchpad.net/~siretart/ffmpeg/ubuntu) and have recompiled in my home folder. I have been using it to transcode files and such, but I am just running from my home folder at this time, and haven't yet install it to my system (make install?))
Or should I make a .deb out of my own compiled version and dpkg_add that? I've never made a .deb package before, but I am used to compile things myself.
Yea, kind of confused...