[CONSPIRE] Installing software from source on Linux?

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 06:04:24 -0700, Rick Moen wrote:

[giant snip]

> Thanks, and my apologies for length.  I hope this explanation is of use
> to you.  (And welcome to CABAL's "conspire" mailing list, by the way.
> Ruby rules!  ;->  )

I rather hoped you would provide such length, which is why I
intentionally left out the following link from my post:

http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/conspire/2005-January/000779.html

I felt that post from January would be more of an answer to Dan B.'s
likely next set of questions than to the somewhat more general inquiry
posed this time. It was my intention to point him there after you weighed
in, and as I expected, your two posts go together like ice and cold in
addressing this topic. However, sharing your experiences of the "bad old
days" may have headed off those questions entirely. I sense another
Knowledge Base entry in the works...