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Re: new debian packages




> On Mon, 19 May 1997 21:24:48 +0300, Amos Shapira wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >Just for once to show all those RH freeks that Debian is far from
> >being static :-), here is the list of NEW (i.e. not including updated)
> >packages in the last two weeks or so.
> >
>
> ... skip ...
>
> ... skip ...
>

Well... it's always posible to compile and install program from
the source (that's why source exists :)...
Many programs like irc, ncftp, joe etc can be installed simply by 
doing configure/couple changes in Makefile, config.h/make/make install.
Of course configuring of gcc or perl is not so trivial thing..

So generaly if you want some program, but there is no package 
for your distribution you can just get foobar.tar.gz and 
compile it by yourself. In this case you can configure
it for your personal needs, get latest version and not wait
while package will come out, understand more about how the 
program works.


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