Re: Compiling gvim on Debian

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:17:31PM +0200, Matteo Riva wrote:
> 2010/9/22 Dominique Pellé :
> Thanks for both these suggestion, I completely forgot to check the
> enabled features and actually some are missing compared to my usual
> setup (e.g. perl).

If you want to compile more packages it's a good idea to create
.deb files and install them using dpkg -i. Then the package
manager tracks the installed files and can easily remove them. To
be able to do that download the source package (you need a
deb-src line in your apt/sources.list):

apt-get source vim

And build it with dpkg-buildpackage (provided by the package
dpkg-dev) after changing to the source directory.

Then install the resulting deb file.

Regards,
Simon
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