[Prof Yaffle]

Common advice seems to be to build it as a package, and then use apt-get to install it - if you use make install, you bypass the dependency checking and package manager, which apparently invites problems. Config will survive if you stay on the master branch.

It's easy enough to build the .deb, so I've always done as I'm told :-)

Alternatively... is there anything suitable for you in the unstable or beta repositories?