how to make a *.deb package from source

[Larry Hartman]

thanx for clarification

Looks all too easy, undoubtedly some widget will go haywire in my attempt 
(according to statistics garnished from personal experience) and as a result 
I will spend some hours troubleshooting to realize that I should have turned 
on one of those pesky options I didnt checkout when I first begun.

Just a tad sarcastic and cynical.  Happy New Years (depending on which time 
zone your located in).

Larry

On Sunday 31 December 2006 19:43, claydoh wrote:
> On Sunday 31 December 2006 7:40 pm, claydoh wrote:
> > ./confgure
> > make
> > sudo checkinstall
> >
> > that's all you need, though sometimes ./configure needs some options, so
> > it is a good idea to first run
> >
> > ./configure --help
> > to see if there are any options you need/want to set once you get
> > comfortable with the process
>
> Replying to my self :)
> checkinstall both builds the package and installs it for you