How to replace PulseAudio package with self-compiled one?

Question

So I want to replace PulseAudio 8 on my Ubuntu 16.04 with PulseAudio 11 (because the latter has better support for bluetooth headsets).

I've managed to compile PulseAudio 11 from source, and everything seems to work fine after I do sudo make install, however, every once in a while Ubuntu Software Updater upgrades PulseAudio and rolls me back to version 8.

I cannot just uninstall the standard PulseAudio package, because there's a ton of packages that depend on it, as well as a bunch of libraries that PulseAudio itself needs (and which Ubuntu's package manager wants to remove when their dependency disappears).

Is there a "proper" way of doing this, that plays nicely with packages?

Or I installed a program by getting its source code, and then running sudo make install; how to make apt-get know about it? — muru, Jan 09 '18 at 07:56

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 09 '18 at 22:00

At first, I tried checkinstall, but it produced a package without any dependencies, so I still had that problem of package manager uninstalling libraries that PulseAudio depends upon.

Instead, I followed this suggestion and got a package that was much closer to the original. Have not had any problems with it ...so far.

How to replace PulseAudio package with self-compiled one?

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