What I mean is <div><br></div><div>I am on Arch Linux and say I want to make my Creative Live Webcam work and it requires drivers to be compiled and some one on the web has the source code for the drivers or compiled libraries/modules for the Webcam.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Since Arch does not have a package or for that matter Ubuntu does not have a .deb file, how do I go about getting it installed on my box ? What is the process to get </div><div><br></div><div>a. source tar ball</div>
<div>b. compile it to libs</div><div>c. make a pkg a .deb or whatever Arch offers (if needed)</div><div>d. install drivers</div><div>e. kernel update needed or not etc.,</div><div><br></div><div>What I explained could be low level but I am sure Arch or Debian put together nice installers, but if there are no installers how can I put latest software etc.,</div>
<div><br></div><div>Another one is what does a MBR help you with and how does GRUB or syslinux really help or more imp like</div><div>"I have Linux on another partition and windows on another". Do I need to really re-install Linux or patch it up well so both OS's breathe again ?</div>
<div><br></div><div>These kind of fundamental questions is what I was planning to understand.</div><div><br></div><div>-Narahari</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allen@ua.edu" target="_blank">allen@ua.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">Friends:<br>
Is there a talk that can be done on Linux at a base level like how to weed beyond pkg mgrs etc.,</p>
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