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Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

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> Their build tooling seems very sparse.  In particular, it does not
> support DESTDIR or PREFIX variables.  However, that might be OK in this
> case, as it appears to only produce and install a single artifact: a
> binary called fzf.
> 
> If I were in your position, I would run 'make' and then manually place
> the fzf program in a location where the shell's PATH variable setting
> will allow the fzf program to be found.  Likely either /usr/local/bin
> (if you want it to be available to everyone on the system) or ~/bin (if
> you only want to make it available to your own login without affecting
> others who might be using the system-provided binary).
> 
> Either way, the simplicity of the tool (in terms of it being a single
> binary artifact that is deployed) makes it unlikely that you would
> encounter any issues in doing this.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Roberto

OK, thank you, Roberto.

fzf comes with some shell integration tools like key bindings that can 
be installed according to the DEBIAN readme at 
/usr/share/doc/fzf/README.Debian. I'd prefer to keep those if at all 
possible. Based on what you are telling me, maybe I could try replacing 
the current binary with the newer one and keep the supporting debian 
package files in place.

I can't think of what harm could come from trying it to see if it works 
but I'm not very knowledgeable. So if this sounds like a really dumb 
idea, just let me know.

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Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com> - 2021-08-31 15:20 +0200
  Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2021-08-31 15:50 +0200
    Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com> - 2021-08-31 16:40 +0200
      Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com> - 2021-08-31 16:50 +0200
        Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-31 16:50 +0200
          Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com> - 2021-08-31 17:00 +0200
            Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-08-31 17:10 +0200
              Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com> - 2021-08-31 17:20 +0200
                Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com> - 2021-08-31 17:40 +0200
                Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-31 17:40 +0200
                Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-08-31 18:10 +0200
                Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com> - 2021-08-31 20:30 +0200
                Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-31 20:50 +0200
                Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com> - 2021-08-31 23:30 +0200
            Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com> - 2021-08-31 17:10 +0200
            Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-31 17:40 +0200
              Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com> - 2021-08-31 20:30 +0200
              Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2021-09-04 11:30 +0200
            Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-09-01 12:20 +0200

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