Checkinstall is your friend

thomas fisher studio1 at commspeed.net
Fri Dec 21 14:31:35 GMT 2007


On Friday 21 December 2007 07:00:19 Asmo Koskinen wrote:
> Checkinstall is really your friend, use it.
>
> I just used to say at the end of building "sudo make install", now I say
> "sudo checkinstall". I love it.
>
> Latest stable Gimp from *.tar.gz source:
> [--]
>
> Building Debian package...OK
>
> Installing Debian package...OK
>
> Erasing temporary files...OK
>
> Writing backup package...OK
>
> Deleting temp dir...OK
>
>
> **********************************************************************
>
>  Done. The new package has been installed and saved to
>
>  /home/asmok/Bin/gimp-2.4.3/gimp_2.4.3-1_i386.deb
>
>  You can remove it from your system anytime using:
>
>       dpkg -r gimp
>
> **********************************************************************

>
> Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.
Thanks Asmo
I did a "apropos", "man", "locate" on  checkinstall with a null response.
Do you have a pointer to a knowledge base?
Thanks
Tom







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