G'day linuxgurugamer, many thnx for the quick reply. , I've been doing the latter already, as I saw a vid and a post that said that CKAN doesn't always "get it right"; hence the manual build. ( which btw is really, really, really grindy, [looking up each mod, mod page and previous versions, then incramental testing of the build to see if everything plays well together]).
How well does this CKAN really work master linuxgurugamer?