[Alpine-info] Error message installing version 1.10

[Seth Williamson]

Greetings, Asheesh:

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly on this.

I thought the deb file on Alpine website was meant for all Linux users who 
can use debs.  I assumed that included Ubuntu users.

You ask, "Does the alpine Makefile create "make uninstall" as well as 
"make install""

I am afraid I don't even know what that means.  Is "make uninstall" a 
file?  Or a command I use at the command line, as is?  Or with some other 
file as its target?  Can you tell me how to find out, and then the 
procedure to get the new version installed?

I assume I'd get the source file off the Alpine site?  I'm seeing several 
choices at the top of the page under "Source Download."

After I get whichever one of those is correct, what would be the 
procedure for getting the new version installed by apt-src?

I am grateful for your generous help with this.  Thanks a lot.


Seth Williamson
Slings Gap
Franklin County, VA




On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Asheesh Laroia wrote:


> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Seth Williamson wrote:

>

>> I am running Alpine 1.0 that I compiled and built from source obtained 

>> from the UWash site, per directions I got from an Alpine team member. 

>> It works fine.  I'm running Ubuntu Gutsy.

>>

>> Today I downloaded the new deb and tried to install it.  If I weren't 

>> such a noob about Linux I could probably understand the error message, 

>> but I can't. The process borked.  This is what I got:

>

> In my opinion (as the Debian maintainer of alpine), your life will be 

> easiest if you stick to the .deb files in Debian or Ubuntu.

>

> If you need to use the Debian .deb files before they are available in 

> Ubuntu, use apt-src.  This will compile the package for your system while 

> keeping the Debian package manager happy.

>

> Does the alpine Makefile create "make uninstall" as well as "make 

> install"?  If so, be sure to run "make uninstall" before trying to install 

> a .deb.

>

> http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine-info/2008-February/000250.html 

> indicated that this worked well enough for you in the past.  Let me know 

> if I can further refine the instructions.  Unfortunately I haven't had 

> time to keep an Ubuntu repository myself, and Ubuntu.com is very slow to 

> pull alpine updates.  The apt-src method is just as good.

>

> -- Asheesh.

>

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