08 May 2013

407. Building less (458) as a temporary solution on Debian Jessie

Currently less conflicts with man-db/yelp/gnome-core/gnome on debian jessie. There are probably ways of overriding the conflict, but I prefer to simply compile my own less and install it.

Note that this doesn't take into account WHY less and man-db are listed as conflicting for versions of less below 4.5.6. I simply want less and the way to do it is to compile an approved version of less.

sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall
wget http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/less-458.tar.gz
tar xvf less-458.tar.gz
cd less-458/
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall
0 - Maintainer: [ root@niobium ] 1 - Summary: [ less 4.5.8 ] 2 - Name: [ less ] 3 - Version: [ 458 ] 4 - Release: [ 1 ] 5 - License: [ GPL ] 6 - Group: [ checkinstall ] 7 - Architecture: [ amd64 ] 8 - Source location: [ less-458 ] 9 - Alternate source location: [ ] 10 - Requires: [ ] 11 - Provides: [ less ] 12 - Conflicts: [ ] 13 - Replaces: [ ]

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