[fluxus] R: [Newbie] How to install fluxus on ubuntu?

[Artem Baguinski]

On 09/09/06, Thomas Kappler <thomas.kappler at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
>
> > have you specified the --prefix=/usr when configuring? I found that it is an
> > important thing to do in ubuntu..
> > compile again guile with
> > ./configure --prefix=/usr
>
> I don't think that's a good idea.  On Debian&friends, or on any
> distirbution with a package management system, /usr should be only for
> packages and /usr/local for your own stuff.  Else, you risk messing up
> the automatic package management.
>
> Instead, when building the software that needs the libs in /usr/local,
> you should give the info where to find them.  I don't know how to do it
> in scons, though.

fluxus SConsctruct looks in /usr and /usr/local by default. you can
let it look in more places by specifying
DEPS_PREFIX_PATH=/foo:/foo/bar:/foo/baz (a colon separated list of
paths each of which is expected to contain include and lib
subdirectories).